About Mono Project and Parrot/Perl 6

[chromatic]

On Monday 10 November 2008 10:02:41 Canol Gökel wrote:

> So, why Miguel de Icaza chose implementing .Net (C# compiler, CLI etc...)
> instead of joining this Perl 6 or at least Parrot development?

This is just my opinion.  (I've met Miguel a few times, but we're barely 
acquaintances, so I have no intent to speak for him.)

I believe he had two goals.

1) Replace C as a system programming language.  If you look at GNOME and 
GObject, you see how many gyrations people have to go through to achieve 
object-like behavior.  Add to that all of the fun of memory management and 
memory protection, and C isn't a productive language for writing Unix 
applications.  Sadly, there's still little better.

2) Improve developer tools.  I have Vim and bash configured very nicely for my 
style of working, but refactoring support and documentation tooltips and 
other features could make me more productive.

Parrot and Perl 6 didn't address either of those goals directly then.

-- c