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Postings from July 2000
Joshua N Pritikin <joshua.pritikin@db.com> writes: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:21:21PM +0100, pdcawley@bofh.org.uk wrote: > > Joshua N Pritikin <joshua.pritikin@db.com> writes: > > > On a more serious note, will perl6 be written in C or C++? If C, then I > > > suggest that we avoid actually writing any C by hand, and instead write > > > a perl5 code generator for each major component. > > > > I was thinking the plan was to be able to write perl in perl. I kind > > of assumed that this would mean that there would be a rather more > > fully blown perl compiler that produced 'real' machine language > > (either via C or directly). > > Yah, sounds fun. > > I envision a more specialized version of CFront (C++ to C translator). > Of course we have different goals than the designers of C++ -- we don't > have to care about source code compatibility with C, and we could also > generate C++ (or whatever) from the same backend. Ah. Actually, I realised that doing executable generation purely in Perl, whilst being kind of cute, would be reinventing a whole load of unneccessary wheels when we can just let the (foo) compiler do it for us. Turing completeness is a good thing... -- Piers