Re: Meta-design

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:33:53PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> 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? 
> 
> I don't know.  Sounds reasonable!  :-)

What did Chip learn from Topaz? (IIRC that was C++)
That's hard experience of trying to write perlguts in C++
perl5 is hard experience of trying to write perlguts in C (or C Pre Processor)
What was Sapphire's implementation language? What were its lessons?

Probably more useful than backwards-forwards polite, well reasoned but
ultimately theoretical arguments.
[Was it medieval scientists who preferred reasoning to experiments?]

Nicholas Clark