On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ingy dot Net <[email protected]> wrote: > Parrot is in active development. It is the VM for the Rakudo implementation > of Perl 6 which is in very active development.
and how long have they been in design/development? :) > Maybe it's from my days of working at ActiveState that I naturally think of > Perl and Python as peers. We should have a SeaPIG/SPUG/Seattle.rb meetup > sometime. imo perl is legacy. I haven't done any perl ( thank god!) since the late 90s and I haven't heard of any new perl work being done anywhere in the last 10 years. Lots of new startups in the area are using python. of course, java/jvm still trumps both but I am biased ( I run SeaJUG :) cheers, -- Nimret Sandhu http://www.nimret.org
