Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > For the world of the JVM port, it's imperative that hooks be > provided so > that the front-end can be run independently, and a different > back-end can be > run (to emit bytecode of some sort). All this also dovetails nicely with the mass-market world of embedded devices, where almost all copies of the device have only the compiled code. Only the developers ever have the source, the parser/lexer, etc. in a device. The rest of us with our TVs, VCRs, and so on have only compiled code in our devices. And, I expect to see more and more microcontrollers come with a JVM (or have a JVM readily available). So a perl that can compile down to JVM bytecode would be a big win in the embedded world. ==================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indianapolis, IN, USA "Display some adaptability." -- Doug Shaftoe, _Cryptonomicon_
