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in thread Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word

Not Quite Perl is part of Parrot, and covered here on the Pugs blog. There's also v6 at CPAN; Pugs, which is written in Haskell; and KindaPerl6 (which should have a real page, but I didn't find one).
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Re^15: Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 10, 2007 at 07:18 UTC

    I take that to mean, that despite the context and the second half of the sentence, the "prototype" mentioned is some kind of Perl 6 language prototype, and not any kind of Parrot threading prototype.

    That leaves just the existing PPD, which hasn't changed since it was drafted; is based upon the Perl 5 iThreads model; was written by people who had never used that model; makes no concessions to the obvious failures of the only existing implementation of that model; seeks to perpectuate all the mal-features of that model; and will have to be tacked-on to the Parrot single tasking architecture after the fact just as the existing implementation was.

    Oh dear.

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