Perl is being actively developed for the Parrot VM. LLVM is another interesting option and if someone or some group would like to take it on, it would be a welcome alternate implementation.
What parts in particular of Cobra and ioke look useful to you? Looking at Cobra's intro slide- * Cobra is a new language (sub 1.0) Not sure if Perl6 qualifies as a new language. It's built off of an old language, and is backwards compatible with it. And, perl5 is adopting pieces of perl6. On the other hand there's enough in Perl6 that's new it's easy to make the case that it is a new case. Though "newness" is not something useful to coders! * Object-oriented, imperative This can be implemented in Perl6 *Embraces unit tests, contracts and more This can be implemented in Perl6 *General purpose This can be implemented in Perl6 *Runs on .NET & Mono Not in current implementations on Perl6 *Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc. Rakudo (Perl6 on Parrot) runs on all those platforms. I'm being flippant there- I think if you can ask a more specific question you'll get a better answer. Cobra looks interesting as does Ioke. Cobra is in "late-beta" and Perl6 is still alpha... Ioke looks cleaner and simpler and with the quick look through the link you posted, I didn't see anything jump out as hard to do in Perl6- other than run on the JVM. -y On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Juan Madrigal <jua...@mac.com> wrote: > Just wanted to get some thoughts on the following languages and if any > features from them can be implemented in Perl6: > > Cobra > http://cobra-language.com/docs/papers-etc/Cobra-Socal-Piggies-2008-02-Slides.pdf > > http://cobra-language.com/docs/why/ > > Ioke > http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide > > Also any thoughts on implementing Perl 6 on LLVM? > > Thanks! > > Juan > > >
