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in thread A great talk on Perl6

Yes, you are looking for a project called PONIE.

Except it's been dead for years.

So #perl6 will start rewriting it again in the future. Then kill it. Then rewrite it. Then announce that they're going to rewrite it and try to kill it but let it linger on and then write a compatibility layer five or six different ways and half-arse it onto several different backends.

And then several years later, they'll tell you that it has a real user. They just can't tell you who it is or anything about it. But it has a real user and it's not vaporware, they promise, and it'll be done THIS YEAR FOR SURE and why don't you read their conference presentation and their blogs hosted in Wordpress because they're too busy drinking and rewriting things to figure out how to use Rakudo for anything as mundane as web programming.

After all, it's a language designed to rewrite compilers, slowly and poorly.

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Re^3: A great talk on Perl6
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2014 at 20:41 UTC
    It's a language designed to replace Java and C++ but waiting for good management and workers.
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      > It's a language designed to replace Java and C++ ...

      Hence not one to replace Perl5? ;)

      Good to know ... xD

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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        Absolutely not, even if at the beggining of the project it might have been the idea. It's something Conway insisted on clarifying in his talk. Therefore I see the capacities of reintegration of Perl5 functionalities as a side-effect of Perl6, this is similar to using Java as a virtual machine compared to compiling Java programs, and it is the reason why I was asking about a P6 compiler, able to yield programs independent of any virtual machine.
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      Fourteen years of waiting for good management and workers, you can predict it'll wait forever.
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