Perhaps "the hard work" is done now but the C implementation of PGE predates pugs by several months. The PIR implementation of PGE was also started before pugs existed and substantial work was done before pugs was mature enough to even be an option. (I believe the PIR implementation first entered the parrot repository in April or May 2005, but much work had been done before then.)

Besides using PIR for PGE is also a good case for "eating your own dog food" (IMHO) in that parrot was designed to do this stuff.

But maybe you're right and a perl6 (pugs) implementation of PGE would be better (now). We could compile it down to PIR or PIL or Javascript or Haskell or whatever and use it many places. Maybe you should suggest it to pmichaud or if you really wanted to contribute to the community you could do the implementation yourself. Patches speak louder than words. :-)

duff

In reply to Re^9: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by duff
in thread Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by Anonymous Monk

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