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PGE is the Perl Grammar Engine, but it's a Parrot distribution. It's meant to be usable in any language that runs on Parrot, not just Perl. In a way, it'll replace the pcre engine.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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Re^8: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2006 at 20:40 UTC
    Right. You'd use your Perl6 compiler (Pugs, for the sake of argument) to compile a P6 version of PGE down to PIR or PASM bytecode. Then you'd be able to use it with anything that runs under Parrot. Just like how CPAN6 libraries are supposed to be usable with Ruby-on-Parrot, Python-on-Parrot, etc.
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