Day 113: Pugs runs CPAN modules!!

Earlier today, I've posted my Perl 6 (wishlist|todo list) as a survey. The responses were very constructive. My #1 wishlist item is apparently shared by many:

• An improved Inline::Pugs so I can call Perl 5's DBI.pm from Perl 6 code, and manipulate Perl 6 objects from Perl 5.

So, wish help from clkao, we just did it in the last 3 hours. There's many rough edges that will be tested and fixed soon, but this already works:

use Digest::SHA1--perl5;

my $cxt = Digest::SHA1.new;
$cxt.add('Pugs!');

# This prints: 66db83c4c3953949a30563141f08a848c4202f7f
say $cxt.hexdigest;

My full wishlist, ordered by descending importance, is reproduced below:

1. An improved Inline::Pugs so I can call Perl 5's DBI.pm from Perl 6 code, and manipulate Perl 6 objects from Perl 5.
2. A fully working Perl 6 compilation backend to Parrot or C, so Perl 6 can run in a very competitive speed.
3. A more stable core language definition, with both online and offline documentation.
4. Unit tests for the language and the "core" modules/pragmas I'd use.
5. A few really neat Perl 6 modules that simply can't be done in Perl 5. A robust Seaside/Halo implementation that makes Rails/Catalyst pale in comparison; a combinator library that can be used for formatting, parsing and template generation; et cetera.
6. Shared introspection, threading and debugging support for Perl 5 and Perl 6, as offered by Ponie.
7. A translator from Perl 5 code to Perl 6, to ease migration efforts.
8. ...after those, a fully bootstrapped Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6, and for Larry to call it Perl 6.0.0. :-)

I think I can be excused of not doing the usual summary today. :-)