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in thread What's wrong with Perl 6?

If it isnt written in C (or perhaps C++) its going to find itself at a disadvantage competing in the marketplace with languages that are.

C# and Java seem to be doing just fine, and Ruby's taking off despite being written in C and very slow. I don't understand your reasoning.

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Re^7: What's wrong with Perl 6?
by jdporter (Paladin) on May 14, 2007 at 15:43 UTC
    C# and Java seem to be doing just fine

    Are C# and Java not implemented in "C (or perhaps C++)"? If they are, why do you try to invoke them as counterexamples?

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      Because somehow Parrot (written mostly in C) doesn't count for Perl 6, as far as I understood the post to which I replied.

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        I consider a implementation running on parrot to be pretty much an implementation in C. If your original comment meant to imply that since the implementation would be via parrot that it didnt count as an implementation in C then I apologise for the misunderstanding.

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