Yes, absolutely. It would be impossible to implement perl 5 on top of any of those VMs and get the same semantics.

But we are fantasizing about the scenario where breaking backward compatibility is acceptable to the point of removing support for XS.

So, does it make sense nowadays to keep using reference counting instead of a proper garbage collector? Deterministic destructor calls is a nice thing, but well, it seems most language designers are glad to sacrifice them in favor of proper automatic memory management.

Does it make sense to use the UNIX process model? isn't it better to move to a higher OS-agnostic abstraction? Actually, proper Windows support was one of the first things proposed on p5p related to improvements people would like to see in future Perls.

Custom dispatch semantics seems to be something you can emulate in most platforms at the cost of degraded performance.

So, it is not just that those platforms may have different semantics, it is that those platforms probably have the right semantics.

In reply to Re^6: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by salva
in thread Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by WaywardCode

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