Re: Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6, Ponie are important for users

2005-07-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:46:21PM -0400, Millsa Erlas wrote: > > Being a Perl 5 user myself, I believe that it would be the best idea to > write the final Perl 6 compiler targetting Parrot ideally in Perl 6 or > at least some other higher-high level language such as Haskell. There's been a fair

Re: Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6, Ponie are important for users

2005-06-28 Thread Millsa Erlas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So are you suggesting that Ponie be written in Perl 6 or Perl 5? If you want to remain consistent with the self hosting approach and maximize the Perl 5 userbase, the Ponie compiler Perl should be written in Perl 5, and thus self hosted as well via itself on Parrot. If

Re: Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6, Ponie are important for users

2005-06-27 Thread Norman Nunley, Jr
On 27 Jun 2005, at 15:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So are you suggesting that Ponie be written in Perl 6 or Perl 5? If you Ponie is being written in C. As it stands, it's a refactoring of the current perl code base to use Parrot internals. When all the intended changes have finished, i

Re: Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6, Ponie are important for users

2005-06-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So are you suggesting that Ponie be written in Perl 6 or Perl 5? If you want to remain consistent with the self hosting approach and maximize the Perl 5 userbase, the Ponie compiler Perl should be written in Perl 5, and thus self hosted as well via itself on Parrot. If this were the case, work on

Re: Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6, Ponie are important for users

2005-06-27 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Millsa Erlas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A self-hosting Perl 6 will require of course an implementation of Perl 6 in another language. Pugs seems to be quite far ahead in this respect, quite a bit has already been accomplished with Pugs so it would seem to me to be most efficient and quick to tu