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Re: Working Group Proposal

From:
Brad Clawsie
Date:
July 20, 2000 16:27
Subject:
Re: Working Group Proposal
Message ID:
20000720162708.C28282@yahoo-inc.com
> I don't have a strong opinion about whether writing perl6 in perl,
> in some other meta-language, yet to be invented, which might be
> written in perl, or directly in a low-level language (I assume
> that's what you meant by LLL, since you follow with:) like C.

does anyone have any substantive or even anecdotal data regarding 
the feasability of using a "meta language" to generate code on this
scale?  

it has a lot of "whiteboard" appeal, but it seems that in practice it
might be extremely time-consuming and problematic, as opposed to just
writing it in C.

-- 
brad clawsie  brad@yahoo-inc.com

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