FAQ 1.5 What was Ponie?

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1.5: 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.

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In comp.lang.perl.misc, PerlFAQ Server <br...@theperlreview.com> wrote:
> 1.5: What was Ponie?

> 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 ).

Speaking of retring FAQs, a project that lasted maybe three years and
was abandoned five years ago might be a good candidate for no longer
being "frequently" asked.

And even that final "out to pasture" message says "not been in active
development for almost half a year" extending the obsolescence.

Elijah
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though at least the question is in the past tense

[brian d foy]

In article <eli$11051...@qz.little-neck.ny.us>, Eli the Bearded

<*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

> In comp.lang.perl.misc, PerlFAQ Server <br...@theperlreview.com> wrote:
> > 1.5: What was Ponie?

> Speaking of retring FAQs, a project that lasted maybe three years and

> was abandoned five years ago might be a good candidate for no longer
> being "frequently" asked.

This one should be removed. Thanks,