It didn't call any routines written in other languages? And what about writing an OS?
-----Original Message----- From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 14:45 To: John; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Waning : Opinion! [was RE: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!] I don't want to be a part of this thread, nor language wars in general...however I had to respond to this because it is interesting: >Most degrees in CS/CIS require that you write a simple >compiler. If you >don't learn pointers and memory management, how are >you going to write a >compiler, in Perl? As a matter of fact, I did a compiler for a graduate compiler design class in Perl. It was actually much cleaner and more extensible than the other compilers written in C/C++ and Java. I think Perl is an excellent language to write a compiler in. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
