> Chuckle, chuckle. Gee I guess we need more voices like yours to remind
> us what the goal is. I guess it is all too easy for any one person to
> locate their one or two small pieces of Perl turf they don't want
> touched. Problem is, when you add up all those little pieces, you end up
> having to embed a full Perl5 interpreter inside the Perl6 interpreter
> (a/la x86 cores in new architecture Intel chips) just to keep everyone
> happy.
But we also need the conservative voices to prevent Tom's apprehended
Forces of Academic Bondage from holding the floor (though, like Nat, I'm
entirely confident they won't sway Larry's vote :-)
This discussion does raise an important point (probably OT for this
newsgroup): we must ensure that Perl 5 and Perl 6 *can* co-exist easily.
Damian
PS: Probably best to ignore most of what I say in the near future...it's
likely to be the jet-lag talking ;-)
