Re: Re: The Perl6/parrot/ponie connection

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Re: Re: Re: The Perl6/parrot/ponie connection by halley (Prior) on Aug 11, 2003 at 17:07 UTC
The operating rule of perl6 design is that today's code will run unchanged, but for your code to take advantage of perl6 syntax and capabilities, your code must specifically declare that it is perl6-ready. The underlying technologies (the native vm or the parrot vm) are largely irrelevant to implementing perl applications. How and when and why you might want to learn perl6 is completely at your own pace. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: The Perl6/parrot/ponie connection by sweetblood (Prior) on Aug 11, 2003 at 17:54 UTC
That's a relief... I don't mind learning perl6 in fact it will probably be fun, but to also have to learn the "parrot" and "Ponie" languages is too distressing to think about! I didn't realize that parrot and ponie are just platforms on which perl (or anything else it seems) will run. Thanks!	[reply]