On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:55:12PM +0200, Bart Wiegmans wrote: >> [...] Parrot and Perl6 started out together, and >> now that they have finally truly separated, it is only natural to >> reconsider why we are still around. > > Rakudo and NQP make no claims to have separated from Parrot, and I > don't think that "now that they have finally truly separated" should > quite yet be taken as an established fact. It's not the official > position of the Rakudo development team. Thus far this notion of > a "split" appears to be the public position of mainly one Parrot > developer/leader (admittedly one of the most active ones).
It's also not an official Parrot fact. It was just a slightly wrong talking point from dukeleto, somehow predicting, guessing the longer-term future. I guess. > If Parrot decides to diverge from Rakudo and Perl 6, that's entirely > Parrot's choice to make (as I've held for quite some time), and we'll > find ways to work with whatever happens. It's not Rakudo's goal to > stand in the way of Parrot's evolution, nor is it our goal to > eliminate Parrot as one of Rakudo's useful backends. -- Reini _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
