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Pugs is a distraction
Pugs is a distraction
Posted Oct 22, 2005 5:05 UTC (Sat) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)In reply to: Watch Perl 6. by cventers
Parent article: Technologies to Watch: A Look at Four That May Challenge Java's Development Dominance (O'ReillyNet)
Its been frustrating to watch Pugs siphon off energy from the Perl6 project, which was already was a candidate for the most poorly-paced open source project in memory.
The Perl6 team should be working on release-candidate code only. Unless they plan to release Pugs as Perl6, they should stop wasting time on it. Its going to be difficult enough rolling out a new runtime and language syntax at once without the pointless distraction of dicking around with Haskell.
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Pugs is a distraction
Posted Oct 22, 2005 18:05 UTC (Sat) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]
Well, how else do you suggest they go about writing Perl 6 in Perl 6?
Pugs is a distraction
Posted Oct 22, 2005 18:32 UTC (Sat) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]
Its fine to build a prototyping system - but a set of modules for doing this in Perl5 already existed. Also, the tenor of the discussions indicates to me that Pugs has moved beyond a prototyping system and is turning into a full-fledged project on its own, which is unfortunate since it is not the target platform for Perl6, it is slow, it does not utilize Parrot, and it requires a ghc installation.
Pugs is Useful
Posted Oct 25, 2005 4:07 UTC (Tue) by chromatic (subscriber, #26207) [Link]
The latest stable release of Pugs (6.2.10) does indeed target the latest stable release of Parrot (0.30) as a backend. Autrijus is working on a new intermediate language that targets Parrot more fully and effectively even now.