At 01:05 AM 10/30/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
>The other thing to consider is that Perl is still a compile-on-the-fly
>system. I hope Perl 6 keeps this aspect of Perl instead of moving to a
>more Javaesque development environment.
Absolutely. Compile-and-go is an absolute must, and one that'll end up
disabling most of the potential optimizations for sheer startup time
reasons. Which is a pity, but we can always let people enable them if they
want from the command line.
Dan
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