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From: Joshua N Pritikin <joshua.pritikin@db.com> >Sure. I propose perl5 only because it's already working and should be >sufficiently powerful to handle the task. Of course we can port the >perl5 code to perl6, once perl6 is actually working. If you're planning on changing a lot of the language, an initial attempt at Perl 6 in Perl 5 would give you the ability to try a lot of things out without a lot of cost and complexity. This would be a throwaway, of course, but would provide a reference implementation to base a C/C++/gcc frontend/Haskel/Java/Assembler coding project on. Perl is good for producing rapid prototypes, after all...