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by kbenson 4114 days ago
And strangely enough, the most advanced Perl 6 implementation is even written in Haskell!

That hasn't been true for a few years, but it was true for quite a while. At this point Pugs is fairly out of date and (I believe) abandoned, as it's main developer discontinued development. For a long while it was the most advanced Perl 6 compiler though, and from what I understand a lot of it's rapid advancement was attributed to it being written in Haskell (Perl 6 and Haskell share a good portion of advanced features, so that may have helped).

The current state of support of the various Perl 6 compilers can be seen here[1].

1: http://perl6.org/compilers/features

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Ahh cool, thanks for the correction.