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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:30:39PM -0400, clintp@geeksalad.org wrote:
> From: Joshua N Pritikin <joshua.pritikin@db.com>
> >Sure. I propose perl5 only because it's already working and should be
> >sufficiently powerful to handle the task. Of course we can port the
> >perl5 code to perl6, once perl6 is actually working.
>
> If you're planning on changing a lot of the language, an initial attempt
> at Perl 6 in Perl 5 would give you the ability to try a lot of things
> out without a lot of cost and complexity. This would be a throwaway,
> of course, but would provide a reference implementation to base a
> C/C++/gcc frontend/Haskel/Java/Assembler coding project on.
>
> Perl is good for producing rapid prototypes, after all...
Hm. You seem confused about what I am proposing. Let me emphasize that
any perl5 implementation of perl6 will be a (C?) code generator. This
generated C code will then compile into a perl6 binary. In this way,
perl6 could be distributed as perl5 code, C code, or as a binary.
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