Perl's parser and lexer will likely be in Perl (was Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...)

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 07:48 PM 10/12/00 +0000, John van V wrote:
> 
> 
> >      * It also means we can write bits of perl in Perl, and similarly not 
> > have
> >        to care about this fact.
> >
> >Granted, some developers are thick as a brick...
> >If you are writing perl in Perl, then, presumably, you would know this.
 
> But perl won't be written in Perl. It'll be written in C, most likely. 

It should be noted that in Larry's speech on Friday, he said that he wanted
to write the Lexer and Parser for Perl in some subset of Perl.  :)

(I was the only one who clapped, which either means:

   (a) this is not a popular idea
   (b) there weren't many Perl6 hackers in the crowd
   (c) I am extremely over-exited about the prospect of writing the lexer
       and parser in Perl.  :)

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