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Postings from July 2000
> What I'm advocating is another level of indirection: > > Write a meta-language interpreter in Perl5 that works off extensions. > Write extensions that build up the meta-language. > Use the meta-language interpreter to write Perl6 > Have the interpreter output the C++ code for Perl6 from my uninformed perspective, it seems that people think that writing a C++ writer will buy them portability as opposed to writing C++ directly. if this is the crux of the argument, aren't you really looking for a better build system? (i.e., an alternative to autoconf and make) my alterior motive here of course is that this project could speed the adoption of make alternatives, which would seem a nice by-product (although i am not sure if this is collectively desired in any way). -- brad clawsie brad@yahoo-inc.com