From: Brian Marick <marick@...>
Date: 2001-08-02T02:28:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18979] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Perl6)

Eric Raymond is proposing using Perl's backend for Python. Discussion here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016406.html

At 11:57 AM 8/1/01 , Phil Tomson wrote:
>There is a thread about using .NET's CLR as a backend for Ruby, but how 
>about using Perl6's backend?
>
>I went to a Perl6 preview talk last night by Damian Conway and one of the 
>things he mentioned was that Perl6's runtime and VM are being totally 
>rewritten to improve performance.  Perl6 will also make easier to use 
>different frontend language parsers.
>
>I know that there is a project called shiny that is working on a Ruby 
>frontend to the current Perl5, supposedly Perl6  makes this easier.
>Does Ruby map well to the Perl backend?
>
>Perhaps Perl6's backend could be the Open Source world's alternative to 
>..NET's CLR?  It would be interesting if we could have a Ruby frontend 
>available for Perl6 soon after it is released.
>
>BTW: From Damian's talk it does look like Perl6 will have a lot of cool 
>features.  (See: http://www.yetanother.org/damian/talks/Perl6.v2.pdf )
>But the OO aspects are still rather clunky compared to Ruby.
>
>Phil


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