Perl6 and the Parrot virtual machine
A friend writes: Perl6 is an interesting animal. It’s a complete rewrite of the language, so there are bound to be some hiccups. In fact, one could argue it’s been one big hiccup. Perl 6 has been in the works for something like a decade. It’s the poster child for slipped schedules.
Technically, one thing that will be very exciting about Perl6 isn’t actually Perl6 at all, it’s Parrot, the virtual machine designed for its implementation. Parrot can actually run just about any language you throw at it, and could mean a lot to future cross-platform efforts. It may end up that Parrot is the lasting legacy that Perl 6 gives the computing world.