Phil Tomson wrote: > I know that there is a project called shiny that is working on a Ruby > frontend to the current Perl5, supposedly Perl6 makes this easier. > Does Ruby map well to the Perl backend? > Perhaps Perl6's backend could be the Open Source world's alternative to > .NET's CLR? It would be interesting if we could have a Ruby frontend > available for Perl6 soon after it is released. ESR published a letter in which he proposed to make single VM for both Python and Perl6. (see lwn.net) -- HTTP; (Ach 'tE 'tE 'pE) adj, n: 1. Handy Tool (for) Touring Pornos 2. Happy Techies Tour for Pornos 3. who cares, as long as it ends with Pornos.