Re: Hosting and a More Official Status for http://perl-begin.berlios.de/

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:47:56AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> We are getting off topic here, but it's still an interesting discussion.

> Yes, I know Linux has all of its code rewritten from scratch. However, it 
> doesn't mean it's not UNIX-compatible. If someone writes a Perl 5-compatible 
> implementation from scratch and it passes all the relevant tests and behaves 
> according to perl*.pod it would still be a Perl implementation. That's just 
> like there are (too) many Scheme implementations that are all mostly R5RS 
> compatible.

That's actually now the definition of Perl 6. "It passes the tests"

I agree with everything else you said.

Nicholas Clark