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by jhorwitz (4227) <reversethis-{gro.gnihsams} {ta} {ffej}> on 2005.03.28 15:07 (#39203) Homepage Journal

it's pugs' parrot compiler backend I'm excited about. Assuming a language is targeted to either parrot bytecode or IMC (and possibly AST -- haven't tried that) the HLL layer for language Foo can be written in Foo. No additional C, Haskell, or IMC is required. So we should be able to write the mod_pugs layer in Perl 6.
Now, I have yet to demonstrate that this works with a language other than IMC, but it looks like Pugs will soon have the necessary OO support so I can try it out.
I _do_ plan on learning Haskell though -- I really don't like the feeling of illiteracy when browsing the Pugs source. ;-)

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