Perl 11 is an effort to make Perl 5 pluggable at the following levels: Runtime Virtual Machine, Compilation Unit Format / AST, and Source Code Syntax / Compilers.

This will open up the doors to many kinds of language / technology experimentation, without endangering the existing Perl 5 / CPAN code bases that we depend on every day.

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Will Braswell

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