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2000-07-20-18:16:47 John Porter: > It appears that some of us (you) want to *implement* perl6 in > Perl5, at least as a first cut, while others (Joshua) want to use > perl5 as a language processor for some other language(s) in which > perl6 would be implemented. Then there are those (I) who contend > that perl6 would be best implemented directly in a LLL (C?). > > When and how will this be resolved? I don't know how it'll be resolved, I'm just sitting on the bench and nattering. But I would like to clarify my position a bit. I don't have a strong opinion about whether writing perl6 in perl, in some other meta-language, yet to be invented, which might be written in perl, or directly in a low-level language (I assume that's what you meant by LLL, since you follow with:) like C. The point I was attempting to touch on was that if we _do_ wish to write perl6 in perl (or in other specification languages, themselves implemented in perl), then I would argue that the dialect of perl that we should write in should be perl5, at least until and unless perl6 gets so far past the simple bootstrapping that time comes to actually retire perl5. -Bennett