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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
August 30, 2000 10:06
Subject:
Re: Access to the perl6 parser
Message ID:
4.3.2.7.0.20000830130413.00be7de0@24.8.96.48
At 08:50 AM 8/30/00 +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
>    > Damian Conway wrote:
>    > >
>    > >    > Regardless, you can already do this in perl 5, and will 
> undoubtedly
>    > >    > be able to do it in perl 6, with source filters. (If Damian can
>    > >    > write perl that looks like Latin or Klingon, then python ought to
>    > >    > be simple... :)
>    > >
>    > > I have a module (Language::Pythonesque) on that... :-)
>    >
>    > But it's not on CPAN, or is it?
>
>No. It's far too evil to be on the CPAN.
>
>    > Or is this a joke?
>
>No. You can download it from:
>
>  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/CPAN/Language-Pythonesque-beta.tar.gz

How close to a complete Python implementation is it? I can see shipping it 
as part of perl 5.8.0 if it's close. 6.0.0, too. (And yes, I'm serious)

					Dan

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