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Re: parse Perl in Perl? (was Re: specific plan (was Re:Working Group Proposal))

From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
July 22, 2000 16:28
Subject:
Re: parse Perl in Perl? (was Re: specific plan (was Re:Working Group Proposal))
Message ID:
4.3.2.7.0.20000722090852.00daadb0@24.8.96.48
At 09:51 AM 7/22/00 -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>At the conference, Dan suggested that it's imperative that this subset of
>Perl be source-to-source translatable into C.  Even pa GCC front-end wouldn't
>work, because we want it to be compatible with other compilers.

I wasn't adamant that it went to C, so much as it went completely to some 
language (rather than language implementation) we could be reasonably sure 
was on most people's machines, which sort of means either C or C++. (Though 
if someone wants to port BLISS I know where we can get sources... :)


					Dan

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