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in thread What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in?

I still maintain that my suggestion of using MIX assembly and then building the hardware to run it on was dismissed without due consideration.
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Re^3: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in?
by moklevat (Priest) on Feb 27, 2006 at 17:30 UTC
    Wait, I thought that the whole thing was going to be done in Verilog. What am I going to do with all of these FPGAs, and how am I going to get them out of the parrot's cage?
Re^3: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in?
by spurperl (Priest) on Feb 28, 2006 at 06:10 UTC
    Not so fast ! Fortunately, I have a MIX simulator + MIXAL assembler written in pure Perl 5, *just for this purpose*. Details here. (direct download link)
Re^3: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in?
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2006 at 19:57 UTC
    You should see what they did to me after I proposed a Concurrent Intercal solution, bootstrapped from Ook. :-(