At 1:04 PM -0600 9/1/03, Luke Palmer wrote:
Clemens Eisserer writes:
Hi there!
Ië¾m a java programmer
Uh oh :-)
and Ië¾m not really experienced with perl.
[...]
I think that parrot could be the Gnu-version of .NET and could be a
realy benefit for the whole opensource-world. No 20 runtimes need to be
installed on a system - parrot would do the job better than each could
alone (Because if many apps rely on parrot the JIT will be tuned by guys
from IBM ;-) ).
But in my opinion parrot needs a more complete "classpath" that perl5
currently has.
There is a big problem with that: it kinda precludes the whole
"community" thing that made everyone love Perl 5. In particular, CPAN.
The plan for Perl 6, at least, is to include almost nothing in the base
distribution, so administrators are forced to install some stuff from
CPAN order for Perl to be useful at all[1].
Not entirely true. There's going to be a decoupling between the core
distribution, mainly parrot and its supporting stuff, and perl (and
python, and ruby) but there'll be an all-in-one install for them all,
so a trip to CPAN won't actually be necessary.
--
Dan
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