> > Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > > It [miniperl] isn't substantially smaller, so that does you no good.
> The socket library seems to be the poster child for what to leave
> out, but that's a weak argument....
... it would make sense to design a
> miniperl that can dynamically load the "expensive" stuff.
The world being what it is today, I dont think you can get away w/o communications.
The loadable concept might work with industrial strenght and lite versions of the
expensive somewhat exotic stuff, maybe in regexps.
> I like guile (and Scheme in general), but Perl isn't a minimalist language.
Stealing from Scheme is good. Adopting Scheme's Small Is Beautiful philosophy
I'm a big Schumacher fan, I'm not too sure how to take this ;) he would have loved
our economic model :)
I'm really entranced by the prospect of sending frozen structures including anonymous
subs to to remote devices like out on Mars or Pittsburgh.
