Re: A philosophical proof that, a perl6 implementation can be written only by Larry Wall

I don't get it. Either perl can be parsed, or it can't. If it can't, then Larry can't either.

Humans underly the same computability limitations as machine models.

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Re^2: A philosophical proof that, a perl6 implementation can be written only by Larry Wall by Anonymous Monk on May 07, 2010 at 09:06 UTC
You got it correctly, and thats my point. The whole thing about only Larry Wall having the power to do such a job stems from the fact there exists one and only one binary written by Larry Wall which can parse perl. All other attempts(if they have been ever made?, I don't know) have failed to produce a program that match the existing perl binary. If all that is true and then only Larry Wall can write a Perl 6 implementation.	[reply]

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Re^2: A philosophical proof that, a perl6 implementation can be written only by Larry Wall
by Anonymous Monk on May 07, 2010 at 09:06 UTC

You got it correctly, and thats my point. The whole thing about only Larry Wall having the power to do such a job stems from the fact there exists one and only one binary written by Larry Wall which can parse perl.

All other attempts(if they have been ever made?, I don't know) have failed to produce a program that match the existing perl binary.

If all that is true and then only Larry Wall can write a Perl 6 implementation.

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