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? :-)