Re^8: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade

There's sort of a bootstrapping problem there.

Que? Are you saying that there's been a review of the situation and for technical reasons it wouldn't be optimal? Or are you saying you don't understand how bootstrapping a compiler in general works? The hard work is already done, since you can use Pugs as your bootstrap compiler.

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Re^9: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by duff (Parson) on Jan 19, 2006 at 21:53 UTC
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	[reply]
Re^10: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2006 at 22:27 UTC
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. Ah. That answers my original question. Thanks.	[reply]