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agreene
Date:
July 21, 2000 10:13
Subject:
Re: Working Group Proposal
Message ID:
ulmyv5rq8.fsf@pageflexinc.com
John Porter <jdporter@min.net> writes:

> Three approaches:
> 1. Write perl6 in Perl5
> 2. Write perl6 in LCL, and translate that into C*.
> 3. Write perl6 in C*.

These are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Core library routines
(such as the actually searching in the regexp module) could be
hand-coded in C*, while other portions that lend themselves to a LCL
(such as the parsing of regexps themselves) could use approach 2.

I think any monolithic answer to this question will be wrong. Use perl
for the things perl is good at, and use C for the things C and related
languages are good at.
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