WTF? (why no alternate implemenations?)

[Dave Cross]

Quoting Luis Motta Campos <luismottacampos at yahoo.co.uk>:

> I never heard about Topaz. Anyone have interesting links at hand?

Topaz was an experiment to rewrite Perl in C++. It was sometimes  
refered to as "Perl 6" (this was before Perl 6 was around).

 From perlfaq1 (What is Perl 6?):

   Perl 6 was an oft used term for Chip Salzenberg's project to rewrite
   Perl in C++ named Topaz. However, Topaz provided valuable insights
   to the next version of Perl and its implementation, but was ultimately
   abandoned.

See also Chip's article at

   http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/09/topaz.html

Ahh... nostalgia :)

Dave...