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Postings from July 2000
This is due soon, so before I forget:
The Internals Design job description
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The whole point of this position is to be responsible for, though not
necessarily design (as we have lots of clever people), the internal
interfaces perl presents. The primary target is for programs that embed
perl, extensions that perl embeds, and (to a lesser extent) embedded
systems. The design of the internal data structures and code flow is a
secondary responsibility, but it's more an advisory position there, as the
internals will tend to flow naturally from the language design and
interfacing requirements. In the event that perl gets partitioned (into
lexer/parser, optmizer, and execution engine, say) this position's
responsible for the interfaces between those partitions as well.
In other words, my job is to make sure perl talks nicely and easily with
the rest of the world, and to itself. The code behind the conversation is
someone else's responsibility.
Dan
--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski even samurai
dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even
teddy bears get drunk
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