Dead on. Perl virtual machine in FORTH, anyone? :-)

That's really an obsession of yours, ain't it? ;-)

To be honest, yes. As far as obsession goes (not effort or success), I am in good company (obsession, not FORTH). See Thoughtful Programming and Forth for a nice summary of why I might be obsessed with this idea :-) But it is an idea as of yet, no more...

Obligatory disclaimer: I agree with many ideas and conclusions laid out there, but not necessarily with all of them. Details of agreement and disagreement are subject to privacy.

The idea of implementing Perl 6 in FORTH struck me as an obvious thing to try, since FORTH - lowlevel - is much the same way lingua franca as Perl is at the other end of the scale - highlevel (although I'm too much an amateur to try it myself, I guess - we'll see :-)

update: made clear audreyt is obsessed, but not with Perl 6/FORTH ('til now :-)

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