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by alnayyir 5855 days ago
Sadly x86/arm/mips/sparc/power processors aren't Perl machines and Perl6 thusly can't be used to make a kernel for a Unix derivative.
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One could probably get Scheme to do this and use it to make a kernel. But what would be the point of making it a Unix machine then? Make it a Scheme machine.
They aren't C machines, either. But I agree, that Perl is probably harder to compile to native code than C.
Yes, I think we all wept when we first learned that.