Re^2: Perl 6... do we need another vm?

There are a lot of benefits I can see to this, and the approach seems very logical and sane.

... except for the reasons why not to build Perl 6 on the Perl 5 VM which are even more valid in 2006 than they were in 2000, namely that Very Few people know how or want to work on the Perl 5 VM and that the Perl 5 VM is complex and obtuse and sprawling and nearly impenetrable to people who don't already know how to work on it.

(Then again, Simon Cozens and I figured out a way to make continuations work with it and Nicholas and Rafael seemed to agree that it's possible.)

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Re^3: Perl 6... do we need another vm? by revdiablo (Prior) on Sep 05, 2006 at 15:49 UTC
except for the reasons why not to build Perl 6 on the Perl 5 VM which are even more valid in 2006 than they were in 2000 Indeed. I didn't mean to imply that 6-on-5 was a good Long Term Solution, just that it was something I thought was a nice consequence of the goal not to be tied to any particular implementation.	[reply]