Hey chromatic, maybe you missed the parts where I explicitly said that my historical knowledge is only as good as the sources I have read (+/- my sideline experience)? Please stop framing my clarifications as intentionally disingenuous. If you have additional historical perspectives to share, then by all means. I even explicitly asked for that in my original response.
Now, I think you are also being a bit disingenuous. The Parrot team shifted focus. You can say all you want that the original vision was always all dynamic languages (which I already said, by the way). But to frame the original Parrot efforts as anything less than building a foundation for Perl 6 clashes with my own memory of the timeline.
If the JVM and the Java teams essentially stopped talking to each other, I would definitely consider that to be some form of collective decision making representing an overall shift in focus for the projects. That's more akin to what I remember of the Parrot/P6 split. Even your post hints at it when you say "Various contributors never had (or lost) interest in P6". But again, I was only "involved" from the sidelines and am limited to the available materials, including yours, and synthesizing them from individual rants into some semblance of a balanced picture.
If the JVM and the Java teams essentially stopped talking to each other, I would definitely consider that to be some form of collective decision making representing an overall shift in focus for the projects. That's more akin to what I remember of the Parrot/P6 split.
That's the story certain people have been telling for quite a while, but it never happened while I was involved in either project. If you look at the use.perl.org archives, you can see that both Allison and I (as the architect of Parrot and a lead developer, respectively) were collaborating closely with Rakudo developers on the weekly P6 design calls.
I understand that, from the outside, there's a natural tendency to take all of the perspectives and comments and assume that the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but the historical record is out there and available. I've certainly referred to it directly when posting my opinions about what happened and when.
Now, I think you are also being a bit disingenuous. The Parrot team shifted focus. You can say all you want that the original vision was always all dynamic languages (which I already said, by the way). But to frame the original Parrot efforts as anything less than building a foundation for Perl 6 clashes with my own memory of the timeline.
If the JVM and the Java teams essentially stopped talking to each other, I would definitely consider that to be some form of collective decision making representing an overall shift in focus for the projects. That's more akin to what I remember of the Parrot/P6 split. Even your post hints at it when you say "Various contributors never had (or lost) interest in P6". But again, I was only "involved" from the sidelines and am limited to the available materials, including yours, and synthesizing them from individual rants into some semblance of a balanced picture.