X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq1.pod;h=0284e76f882fea4240b4334d6aabb0543fcfdcac;hb=c23d1eb0e18a49361001d26c686323d50b0c6d21;hp=0c112608e7749172925cf1cc79fd0685a88c46f6;hpb=36597cb96e137fd6f5c0e4fa46d8674ce1ad329a;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index 0c11260..0284e76 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/04/07 18:46:13 $) +perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 2003/07/09 15:47:28 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/ or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters , -or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq , +or read the faq at http://simon-cozens.org/writings/p5p-faq , or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request@perl.org a subscription request (an empty message with no subject is fine). @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The 5.0 release is, essentially, a ground-up rewrite of the original perl source code from releases 1 through 4. It has been modularized, object-oriented, tweaked, trimmed, and optimized until it almost doesn't look like the old code. However, the interface is mostly the same, and -compatibility with previous releases is very high. +compatibility with previous releases is very high. See L. To avoid the "what language is perl5?" confusion, some people prefer to @@ -92,16 +92,26 @@ simply use "perl" to refer to the latest version of perl and avoid using See L for a history of Perl revisions. +=head2 What is Ponie? + +At The O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention in 2003, Artur +Bergman, Fotango, and The Perl Foundation announced a project to +run perl5 on the Parrot virtual machine named Ponie. Ponie stands for +Perl On New Internal Engine. The Perl 5.10 language implementation +will be used for Ponie, and there will be no language level +differences between perl5 and ponie. Ponie is not a complete rewrite +of perl5. + =head2 What is perl6? -At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall +At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall announced Perl6 development would begin in earnest. Perl6 was an oft used term for Chip Salzenberg's project to rewrite Perl in C++ named Topaz. However, Topaz provided valuable insights to the next version -of Perl and its implementation, but was ultimately abandoned. +of Perl and its implementation, but was ultimately abandoned. -If you want to learn more about Perl6, or have a desire to help in -the crusade to make Perl a better place then peruse the Perl6 developers +If you want to learn more about Perl6, or have a desire to help in +the crusade to make Perl a better place then peruse the Perl6 developers page at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ and get involved. Perl6 is not scheduled for release yet, and Perl5 will still be supported