in reply to Perl 6... do we need another vm?

I know Active State has made some progress with running Perl 5 in the .NET vm though the $$ price is rather... well, I'm not able to justify the price to the fiancee (soon to be wife in a month from now).
ActiveState no longer has a .NET product, it was killed off some time ago.

jdtoronto

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Re^2: Perl 6... do we need another vm?
by Jenda (Abbot) on Sep 04, 2006 at 12:49 UTC

    Any pointers? The ActiveState Perl Dev Kit, containing the PerlNET compiler seems to be well and kicking. I guess you mean the Visual Studio plugin that they used to have, but that's not really related. It was just an extension for the Visual Studio IDE.

    BTW, ActiveState PerlNET does NOT compile Perl5 to the .Net bytecode. It just packs the Perl sources to an EXE or DLL and provides the linking between .Net bytecode and Perl , but the Perl code is still compiled and executed by the good old perl engine.

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