Please forgive the naiveté of this question.
1 - If Perl6 is going to have multiple back-ends, rather like the
cross-compilation feature of gcc, "Perl6" won't be a specific virtual
machine or back-end. (As Perl5 is now, and, say, Java has as a fundamental
part of its design.)
2 - If Perl6 is going to have multiple front-ends, rather like ... nothing I
can think of at the moment, then "Perl6" won't be a syntax, something you
can show to people. (Abit it may have a "preferred embodiment" in the
similar-to-Perl5-syntax that I see people posting here.)
Therefore, if it isn't a back-end and it isn't a front-end, what is it?!
Perl6 seems to be a "nothing sandwich". Not that this is bad, Zen is this
way.
Can someone say what it is?
Daniel Wilkerson
