Among other things, it means you don't really have to care whether the backend is using Haskell or Parrot or the latest and greatest VMs from MS and Sun. The current Haskell implementation of pugs is a nice prototype, but in the long run, Haskell is just another engine to run on.

Well, sometimes if fever gets me, I'm dreaming of a Perl 6 implementation in FORTH, but that's perhaps just my delirating style... ah, a perl chip! That would be IT! :-)

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