Or — provocative title aside — why does Parrot want to move away from Perl in its build process?
Yesterday, Jim Keenan asked me a question about a Windows bug in some Perl code used in Parrot configuration. My suggestion was to use a function from IPC::Cmd instead, since IPC::Cmd is core in Perl 5.10 and [...]
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