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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq.pod b/pod/perlfaq.pod index 614ff564a9..9ca88c8fe0 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq.pod @@ -129,10 +129,6 @@ What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Perl 6? =item * -What was Ponie? - -=item * - What is Perl 6? =item * diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index ba70a82260..bea50a059e 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -153,21 +153,6 @@ http://rakudo.org ). See L<perlhist> for a history of Perl revisions. -=head2 What was Ponie? - -(contributed by brian d foy) - -Ponie stands for "Perl On the New Internal Engine", started by Arthur -Bergman from Fotango in 2003, and subsequently run as a project of The -Perl Foundation. It was abandoned in 2006 -( http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/487 ). - -Instead of using the current Perl internals, Ponie aimed to create a -new one that would provide a translation path from Perl 5 to Perl 6 -(or anything else that targets Parrot, actually). You would have been -able to just keep using Perl 5 with Parrot, the virtual machine which -will compile and run Perl 6 bytecode. - =head2 What is Perl 6? At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall |