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RE: The 5% solution
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From:
David Grove
Date:
May 10, 2001 05:22
Subject:
RE: The 5% solution
Message ID:
BMEOIGKGMBHCLHHNLNABOENKCAAA.pete@petes-place.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Cozens [mailto:simon@netthink.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:01 AM
> To: Dave Mitchell
> Cc: perl6-language@perl.org
> Subject: Re: The 5% solution
>
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:19:10AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > to be such that the writing of the Perl 5 to 6 translator utility is
> > still feasable.
>
> If you're at TPC this year, you'll hear me how explain how translators
> *far* weirder than simply Perl 5 to Perl 6 are possible. :)
>
> Briefly: We want the Perl 6 runtime to be an equivalent of the Microsoft
> CLR, so that if you can somehow get bytecode onto it - from whatever
> language - you can run it.
... at half the speed with twice the bugs and no security and no meaningful
error messages but lots of "good marketing verbage"...
I'd say we aim a bit higher than a Microsoft example, but point taken
nonetheless.
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