Re: Mono and Perl6....

2002-02-07 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 02/06/02 Larry Wall wrote: > Black pots and kettles aside, they bring up a lot of interesting issues > that we have to think about if we're going to be more language-neutral > than the CLR. The main issue is that there is a point where too much generality will make the VM too hard to target co

Re: Mono and Perl6....

2002-02-06 Thread Larry Wall
Also, reading http://www.javalobby.org/clr.html is a good antidote. Admittedly it's a bit Java-centric, but what do you expect from a place named "javalobby"? Black pots and kettles aside, they bring up a lot of interesting issues that we have to think about if we're going to be more langu

RE: Mono and Perl6....

2002-02-06 Thread Brent Dax
Aaron Sherman: # Ok, so I read Miguel's message: # # http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg # 00031.html # # I drank the cool-aid and now I find myself thinking... should Perl6 # compile down to its own byte-code or to Mono's CIL? Miguel # feels this is # the way to go, and

Mono and Perl6....

2002-02-06 Thread Aaron Sherman
Ok, so I read Miguel's message: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html I drank the cool-aid and now I find myself thinking... should Perl6 compile down to its own byte-code or to Mono's CIL? Miguel feels this is the way to go, and if Mono's bytecode is in fact s