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07.07.09
Rakudo Brings Perl 6 Closer Still
 By
Doug Caverly
An implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine is moving forward. A fresh report indicates that Rakudo is "ready for experimentation," which is a positive development that many people might not have thought would come.
President Kennedy established the goal of putting a man on the moon in 1961, and the Apollo 11 mission deposited Neil Armstrong there in 1969. The Perl 6 project, by comparison, has been in development since 2000, and of course it's now 2009 with not much publicly available. This doesn't put Perl 6 in a favorable light.
Still, critics shouldn't jump to conclusions. Patrick Michaud, the lead developer of Rakudo, told Alex Handy, "There are at least two Perl 6 implementations. They are not the complete language, but they are sufficient for quite a few people to be writing in. There are number of people who say Perl 6 is a myth, but the facts are pretty clear that there are people writing Perl 6 already."
As for some other details, Allison Randal, the chief architect and lead developer of the Parrot project, said that Perl 6 "is kind of a superset of all the features of all the dynamic languages you've ever seen. There really isn't any existing virtual machine that could support that out of the box. The existence of Perl 6 at all depends fairly heavily on Parrot."
So there's the latest Rakudo and Perl 6 info for you. It looks like we'll see some tangible results before anyone sets foot on Mars, at least.
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