Friday, July 30, 2004

Parrot in the Real World

Point of the presentation was that you can move from a custom 4GL language to Parrot fairly easily. Larry Wall pointed out that this is exactly the Perl 5 to Perl 6 strategy as well. Thankfully, while we have a lot of legacy software, even Starlink isn't stuck with a 4GL database language, so while interesting this wasn't a particularly relevant session for me...