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I notice that none of the people excited about using Parrot (including the FAQ-writer) seem to have addressed issues like maintaining a run-from-source availability of code like we currently have. Once you start requiring compilation to persistent bytecode packages, you lose the ability to just read the program any time you like. I've gotten to like that quite a lot over the years, and I'll miss it.

I understand why Parrot, rather than JVM or .NET/CLR — what I would like to hear more about is why JIT/interpreter implementation has suddenly become a second-class citizen at best, and more likely a non-citizen entirely.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

In reply to Re: Perl 6... do we need another vm? by apotheon
in thread Perl 6... do we need another vm? by jfroebe

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