in reply to Re^2: Perl 6... do we need another vm?
in thread Perl 6... do we need another vm?
Oh, the young'uns, forgetting all about Smalltalk in 1980. {sigh}
Not to mention Lisp :-)
Hell - if you've got a Linux box you can still play with Poplog. Lisp, Pop-11, ML & Prolog all compiling down to the same stack based VM, which was in turned compiled down to a RISCish register based VM, which was in turned compiled down to machine code.
Kid's eh? :-)
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