On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:06:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Because the Python folks didn't have a problem basing JPython off of
> > CPython.
>
> Actually, this one isn't a good comparison. Python is substantially easier
> to parse, and, is a much simpler language. I like Perl because it is more
> complicated, but that also comes with a burden that we design its
> implementation more carefully.
>
> Larry worked for a summer trying to mold the C implementation of Perl into a
> JVM port. I have spent substantially more time than that on it than that.
> It's a hard problem. I'll be happy to send you chapters of my Master's
> Thesis that I am finishing up this month, that is making the detailed
> arguments as to why it is a hard problem.
Yes please.
> I believe the difficult that we've had porting perl5 to the JVM is a bug in
> perl5's design. I am trying to encourage people to fix that bug in perl6.
OK!
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