Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 14 17:22:14 2006 New Revision: 11983 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod
Log: Added a bit of overview of the project plan. ["'bout time!"] Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S01.pod Thu Sep 14 17:22:14 2006 @@ -10,19 +10,51 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 24 Oct 2005 + Last Modified: 14 Sept 2005 Number: 1 - Version: 3 + Version: 4 -This document summarizes Apocalypse 1, which covers the initial -design concept. (These Synopses also contain updates to reflect -the evolving design of Perl 6 over time, unlike the Apocalypses, -which are frozen in time as "historical documents". These updates are -not marked--if a Synopsis disagrees with its Apocalypse, assume the -Synopsis is correct.) - -The other basic assumption is that if we don't talk about something in these -Synopses, it's the same as it was in Perl 5. +This document originally summarized Apocalypse 1, which covers the +initial design concept. That original summary may be found below +under "Random Thoughts". However, these Synopses also contain +updates to reflect the evolving design of Perl 6 over time, unlike +the Apocalypses, which are frozen in time as "historical documents". +These updates are not marked--if a Synopsis disagrees with its +Apocalypse, assume the Synopsis is correct. + +Another assumption has been that if we don't talk about something in these +Synopses, it's the same as it is in Perl 5. Soon we plan to fill in +the gaps with the Perl 5 details though. + +=head1 Project Plan + +Mostly, we're just a bunch ants all cooperating (sort of) to haul +food toward the nest (on average). There are many groups of poeple +working on various bits and pieces as they see fit, since this is +primarily a volunteer effort. + +This document does not attempt to summarize all these subprojects--see +the various websites for Parrot and Pugs and Perl 6 for such +information. What we can say here is that, unlike how it was with +Perl 5, none of these projects is designed to be the Official Perl. +Perl 6 is anything that passes the official test suite. This test +suite was initially developed under the Pugs project because that +project is the furthest along in exploring the high-level semantics +of Perl 6. (Other projects are better at other things, such as speed +or interoperability.) However, the Pugs project views the test suite +as community property, and is working towards platform neutrality, +so that Perl 6 is defined primarily by its desired semantics, not by +accidents of history. + +Another aspect of this is the Perl 6 compiler will be self-hosting. +That is, the compiler will eventually compile itself, at least down +to the point where various code-generating backends can take over. +This largely removes platform dependencies from the frontend, so that +only the backends need to worry about platform-specific issues. + +But above all, our project plan is simply to help people find a +spot where they can feel like they're creating the future, both for +themselves and for others. Around here, that's what we call fun. =head1 Random Thoughts
