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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index 72a523287f..71fd84fc79 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 7822 $) +perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 7997 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -150,20 +150,20 @@ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ . See L<perlhist> for a history of Perl revisions. -=head2 What is Ponie? +=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. Instead of using the current Perl internals, Ponie -creates a new one that provides a translation path from Perl 5 to Perl 6 -(or anything else that targets Parrot, actually). You can also just keep -using Perl 5 with Parrot, the virtual machine which will compile and run -Perl 6 bytecode. +Perl Foundation. It was abandoned in 2006 +U<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/487> . -You can get more information at http://www.poniecode.org/ and -http://www.parrotcode.org . +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 perl6? @@ -390,9 +390,9 @@ You might find these links useful: =head1 REVISION -Revision: $Revision: 7822 $ +Revision: $Revision: 7997 $ -Date: $Date: 2006-09-11 14:22:59 +0200 (lun, 11 sep 2006) $ +Date: $Date: 2006-11-01 09:29:17 +0100 (mer, 01 nov 2006) $ See L<perlfaq> for source control details and availability. |