Re^3: Perl 6 and trend towards web-based applications

It takes a huge security framework to do that safely. Especially when your VM wasn't orginally designed to do it (it's hard enough when it is).

Further, is this really a large application domain? If we take Sun's marketting department circa 1996 at face value, the web should running on Java applets by now. I rarely see them outside some cute arcade games. The applet market is almost non-existant, and Java has settled its success on the server-side.

So Parrot Applets would take a large effort and would run into territority others have failed to take. I don't think it's worth it.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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Re^4: Perl 6 and trend towards web-based applications by Anonymous Monk on Jan 17, 2005 at 16:43 UTC
Yeah, and if we take Perl's marketing department circa 2000 at face value, we'd all be using perl6 now. `;-)`. I've seen large commercial (expensive, niche-market (banks)) application been rewritten or replaced with Java applets. Succesfully. With large improvements for the customer and/or vendor. Granted, I don't see many Java applets on the public web. Nor do I really want to.	[reply]