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On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:50:37PM -0400, kstar@chapin.edu wrote:
> Goals:
> ------
>
> * The ability to port perl6's parser to segmented-memory
> architectures, including segment sizes as low as 4K bits.
>
> * The ability to select any arbitrary subset of
> perl's operators and keywords, and to build a perl6 executable
> which implements only those operators and keywords, or to
> adjust the set of operators and keywords at run-time.
>
> * The ability to implement all language extensions, including
> any keyword found in Perl5, in pure Perl6. To achieve this
> degree of configurability, we will employ the same techniques
> that Transmeta is using in their microprocessor instruction set
> translator.
>
> * Satisfactory performance, meaning equal or better performance
> than any other computer language including perl5.
I don't know. These goals seem pretty ambitious...
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