Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by laumars on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:52PM
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> 3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they're different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they're called "javac" and "jvm." This wifty "no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you're running is Rakudo and Parrot" distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.
I'm surprised by this comment because this is how pretty much every language works. C++ has specs and different compilers with different names and has done for decades. As does C, Python, Perl 5, Javascript, PHP, Lua, LISP, LOGO, BASIC, Pascal, SQL and your own example of Java has different compilers/interpreters/VMs.
Often even in languages where the "spec" is defined by a reference implementation, you still find people building their own compilers or VMs for different platforms or use cases.
It's really quite common to separate the language name (and specification version) from the compiler and runtime branding. In fact that used to be the norm back when target platforms differed wildly.
I'm surprised by this comment because this is how pretty much every language works. C++ has specs and different compilers with different names and has done for decades. As does C, Python, Perl 5, Javascript, PHP, Lua, LISP, LOGO, BASIC, Pascal, SQL and your own example of Java has different compilers/interpreters/VMs.
Often even in languages where the "spec" is defined by a reference implementation, you still find people building their own compilers or VMs for different platforms or use cases.
It's really quite common to separate the language name (and specification version) from the compiler and runtime branding. In fact that used to be the norm back when target platforms differed wildly.