Ponie: Perl On New Internal Engine

caseywest writes "Today at his State of the Onion speech during the 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Larry Wall announced the Ponie project (somewhere within his legendary humorous presentation). Ponie involves rewriting central parts of the Perl 5 interpreter to run on Parrot, the Perl 6 virtual machine, including a C API emulation layer to make existing XS code work. Arthur 'sky' Bergman is sponsored by his employer Fotango to develop Ponie. Currently, a press release and a FAQ are available. More details will be available in due time."

hidden agenda's

[denthijs]

This is all just a plot to get tickets to YAPC::Europe [yapc.org]
And a damn good one too, i'm going. Hope we'll get some scoop on this too
One year has passed since the last YAPC and they defenately confused me enough to make me want to hear The Damian [perlmonks.org] explain it to me all over again, or anyone who understands it for that matter ;)
Funny how he won over the complete hall of coders using only two words: "less chars"

Pony??? I blame London.pm

[babbage]

The proof is in the CPAN [cpan.org]:

David Cantrell > Acme-Pony-1.1.2 > Acme::Pony
Module Version: 1.1.2 Source

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
DIAGNOSTICS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

NAME
Acme::Pony - An encoding scheme for Silly People

SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Pony;

print "Hello world";

DESCRIPTION
The first time you run a program under use Acme::Pony, the module removes all that nasty text stuff from your source file, turning it into a lovely ASCII-art rendition of a pony. In the spirit of other london.pm modules, the ASCII-art will consist entirely of the characters matching /[buffy]+/i, thus fulfilling Greg, Leon and Dave's fantasy of seeing Buffy riding a Pony.

DIAGNOSTICS

Can't pony '%s'
Acme::Pony couldn't access the source file for modification.

Can't unpony '%s'
Acme::Pony couldn't access the source file for execution.

AUTHOR
David Cantrell

This is based on Leon Brocard's 'Buffy' module and inspired by Damian Conway's brief talk on his Bleach module.

Leon contributed the code for scaling a vector Pony and filling it, replacing the bitmap Pony from the previous versions.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001, David Cantrell. The Artistic Licence applies.

I don't think I need to mention that Leon Brocard works for Fotango [fotango.com], and that Fotango owns up [fotango.com] to adding their share of silly libraries to CPAN.

And now they've gotten to Larry Wall himself.... :-)

So, is there a URL for the State of the Onion talk this year then?