State of the Onion 2003
by Larry Wall
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Now, it's awfully cumbersome to keep saying "Perl 5 over Parrot" and such, so we need to do some namespace cleanup here. We can drop the "over Parrot" for Perl 6, because that's redundant.
Likewise, people always think of the original when we say "Perl 5".
That means we need a code name for this thing in the middle. We've decided to call it "Ponie".
We have lots of reasons to call it that. To be sure, none of them are good reasons, but I'm told it will make the London.pm'ers deliriously happy if I say, "I want a Ponie".
And I do want a Ponie. "I want the Ponie, I want the whole Ponie. I want it now."
The plan is to for Ponie version 5.10 to be a drop-in replacement for Perl 5.10. Eventually there will be a Ponie 5.12, and if Ponie is good enough, there may not be an old-fashioned 5.12. We'll just stop with 5.10.
So we're gonna start on Ponie right now. Since I've been carping about lack of resources, you might wonder how we're gonna do this.
Well, as it happens, a nice company called Fotango has a lot of Perl 5 code they want to run on Parrot, and they are clued enough to have authorized one of their employees, our very own Arthur Bergman, to spend company time porting Perl 5 to Parrot.
Is that cool or what? I'm out of time, so read the press release. But I'm really excited by our vision for the future, and if you're not excited, maybe you need to have your vision checked.
Thanks for listening, and I hope that from now on you'll all be completely unreasonable.
