There is a c-- (www.cminusminus.org) project, which is IMHO,
like CLR. provides for garbage collection, concurrency(in works),
etc. May be that can be the VM for all.

--Vardhan

At 11:58 PM 01-08-01, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "[ruby-talk:18974] Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Perl6)"
>     on 01/08/02, Phil Tomson <ptkwt / shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
>
>|There is a thread about using .NET's CLR as a backend for Ruby, but how
>|about using Perl6's backend?
>
>I'm not sure.  Basic object model of two languages are quite different
>(basically untyped, sometimes statically typed language and
>dynamically but strongly typed language).  But if Perl6 people can
>work with Python, probably they can do same thing with us.
>
>Currently Perl6 VM is vaporware (so is Rite).  So we have to wait and
>see how it goes.
>
>                                                         matz.

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