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On Wed, 2009-25-03 at 09:59 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:36:56AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > > Rakudo is a particular implementation of Perl 6 using Parrot. While > > it is a separate project from both Perl 6 and Parrot, it is intimately > > tied to both, and I think its logo should reflect that. I don't see > > much point in having separate logos for "Rakudo on Parrot" and "Rakudo > > without Parrot". I mean, I suppose much of the frontend work could be > > ported to a different backend, but would that still be considered > > Rakudo? > > I don't know that I consider Rakudo Perl to be forever tied to Parrot. > If we come up with other backends, I'd still consider the result > "Rakudo"; similar to how "Pugs" referred to all of the various backends > available to it and not just the Haskell backend. that's very interesting > > So from that perspective, I don't know that the Rakudo logo ought > to be strongly tied to Parrot, any more than we tie the Parrot logo > to the various GNU tools used to build it. still looks like: 6 Rakudo P will work for the interim as long as Rakudo is separable > > Pm -- --ghThread Previous | Thread Next