Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 04:29:18AM -0700, A. C. Yardley wrote:
> > NOTE: "CLI Partition III - CIL (word, pdf)," a link to which is on
> > the bottom of the webpage, includes a description of their so-called
> > "Common Intermediate Language (CIL)."
>
> Just to keep people keeping things in perspective, the idea of a CIL is not
> particularly earthshattering and, in fact, we've already got one. I spent
> yesterday modifying Leon Brocard's excellent 'Shiny' compiler toolkit to
> output, execute and deparse Perl bytecode from Ruby source.
Now, if we can just translate Ruby's runtime libraries from C to Perl
we'll be laughing. Or laughed at. I'm never quite sure.
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Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
