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Postings from July 2000
Joshua N Pritikin <joshua.pritikin@db.com> writes: > On a more serious note, will perl6 be written in C or C++? If C, then I > suggest that we avoid actually writing any C by hand, and instead write > a perl5 code generator for each major component. I was thinking the plan was to be able to write perl in perl. I kind of assumed that this would mean that there would be a rather more fully blown perl compiler that produced 'real' machine language (either via C or directly). Which seems a tad ambitious, but it would be very nice. -- Piers