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Re: embedded perl

From:
Joshua N Pritikin
Date:
July 20, 2000 10:34
Subject:
Re: embedded perl
Message ID:
20000720133439.W17718@ghostwheel.wks.na.deuba.com
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:17:18PM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Yah.  Perl5 has been drifting this way for a while already.  I just
> propose to factor it better.  CPP riddled code is hard to maintain. 
> Even so, I think CPP is adding a level of indirection between the
> correct conceptual places.  Note that some of Sarathy's work towards 5.6
> involved inventing and regularizing CPP macro patterns.

I guess I'm thinking like this after reading all those articles on
generating the minimum code needed for your favorite embedded kernel
implementation.

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