X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq1.pod;h=0284e76f882fea4240b4334d6aabb0543fcfdcac;hb=c23d1eb0e18a49361001d26c686323d50b0c6d21;hp=ea3a4c36765458efd6dff23e258e90d0ffecd6c0;hpb=197aec242db45fbf1d7853a1ae22a108cc09d23c;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index ea3a4c3..0284e76 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.11 $, $Date: 2002/12/06 07:40:11 $) +perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 2003/07/09 15:47:28 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ 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