Re: MiniPerl6 1.0 "Perlito" bootstrapped in SBCL Lisp

2009-08-29 Thread Bit-Man
Hi Flavio (and Perl 6 enthusiasts), good work, I mean an alternative Perl 6 implementation and to be used as a bootstrapping language is not something you see everyday. I'm part of CaFe PM, the local Perl group in Buenos Aires, and we've organized a Perl 6 Hackaton [1] a month or so a go. Of cour

MiniPerl6 1.0 "Perlito" bootstrapped in SBCL Lisp

2009-08-29 Thread Flavio S. Glock
MiniPerl6 (mp6) is a subset of Perl 6, which was designed as a light bootstrapping language. The initial bootstrap used v6.pm and was then self-hosted in Perl 5. MiniPerl6 is now self-hosted both in SBCL Lisp and in Perl 5. A developer can modify the compiler source code (written in MiniPerl6) an