WTF? (why no alternate implemenations?)

[Graham Barr]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Ovid wrote:
> --- Luis Motta Campos <luismottacampos at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I never heard about Topaz. Anyone have interesting links at hand?
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/09/topaz.html
>
> It was an interesting idea.  It was a worthwhile project.  It failed.

I do not think it failed. Anyone who was in the meeting in Monterey  
will remember the throwing of hotel mugs at walls, which sparked the  
start of the Perl6 effort. As a result of that effort Topaz was  
abandoned, but I do not think it failed.

Graham.