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		molecule on April 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming is hard, let's go scripting.. wherein Larry Wall foresees the future: "I think when the new JavaScript engines come out we'll probably see renewed interest in a JavaScript backend." - December 6, 2007.

sciurus on April 4, 2012 [–]

By "backend" he meant something to run Perl 6 on.

perlgeek on April 5, 2012 | [–]

And he was write. Perlito compiles subsets of both Perl 5 and Perl 6 to Javascript.

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