On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:04 PM, Jimmy Zhuo <jimmy.z...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the original front is not written by PIR, it's by C.

And whiteknight rewrote it in Winxed because it was clearer and faster. 

http://whiteknight.github.com/2011/01/20/parrot_in_parrot_new_frontend.html
http://whiteknight.github.com/2011/08/08/frontend_parrot2.html
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrot/2011-08-19#i_4300881


I don't think the frontend is _the_ reason to keep Winxed around.  The reason 
to keep it in core is so that I never have to write a single line of PIR again.

~~ benabik

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