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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-10 04:28:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-10 04:28:40 +0000 |
| commit | d96a6f6bfeb6e1e4063bbdbb1e69a78890bc4817 (patch) | |
| tree | d537de0559e7e083e6633e38603ec9b4cfe83c6f /pod | |
| parent | 6e51eab0a82201d3fd490bc3fc504744c5072acc (diff) | |
| download | perl-d96a6f6bfeb6e1e4063bbdbb1e69a78890bc4817.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index ea3a4c3676..0284e76f88 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<perlhist> 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 |