Re: Meta-design

[Sam Tregar]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:22:35AM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> > [C++]
>
> > It's nearly as portable,
>
> Uhm. Is this actually true? C runs pretty much anywhere.
>
> Are there any non-fragile implementations of C++ yet?

Which also brings up another point - choosing anything but C is likely to
have a direct impact on our existing userbase.  I have a suggestion - if a
system compiled and ran Perl 5 then it should be able to compile and run
Perl 6.  No upgrades required.

This is also a good arguement against Java.  Many, many systems do not
have a Java runtime installed and there's no excuse for putting people
through the trouble of installing one just to compile Perl.

Are we done yet?

-sam