On Tuesday 07 February 2006 14:17, Yuval Kogman wrote: > If we have more steps and clearer milestones for whatever is between > parrot and the syntax/feature level design implementation will be > easier.
Parrot has had such milestones for well over a year. > De-facto we have people running PIL on javascript. > It works more than parrot does. No, it works *differently* from Parrot, just as an LR parser works differently from an LR parser. Don't make the mistake of thinking "Wow, it took Parrot X months to get a working PGE, while the Pugs version only took Y weeks", especially because the Pugs version had the benefit of looking at *already designed, debugged, and tested* Parrot code. > The design of Perl 6 itself should be agnostic to where people are > developing backends IRL. That's a nice goal in the sense of diversity, but I remain unconvinced of its utility in speeding up the implementation. Every abstraction comes at a price. The recent velocity of Pugs toward the goal of running on N multiple backends rather than one backend seems to argue that education is still cheaper than ignorance. -- c PS - Yes, that *is* a Greek-English pun. Language interoperability is a good thing.
