Re: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in?

The argument is still ongoing, with the camps split pretty much evenly between Java and Visual BASIC.NET. There are a few people wanting to use COBOL, but I don't think their advocacy is going to amount to very much.

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Re^2: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in? by friedo (Prior) on Feb 27, 2006 at 11:30 UTC
I still maintain that my suggestion of using MIX assembly and then building the hardware to run it on was dismissed without due consideration.	[reply]
Re^3: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in? by moklevat (Priest) on Feb 27, 2006 at 17:30 UTC
Wait, I thought that the whole thing was going to be done in Verilog. What am I going to do with all of these FPGAs, and how am I going to get them out of the parrot's cage?	[reply]
Re^3: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in? by spurperl (Priest) on Feb 28, 2006 at 06:10 UTC
Not so fast ! Fortunately, I have a MIX simulator + MIXAL assembler written in pure Perl 5, just for this purpose. Details here. (direct download link)	[reply]
Re^3: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2006 at 19:57 UTC
You should see what they did to me after I proposed a Concurrent Intercal solution, bootstrapped from Ook. :-(	[reply]