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A Perl frontend to GCC would make my life wonderful. Who would I talk
to about that? I'm not about to pretend that I have any idea how to
do that.
- --Dave
- -> -----Original Message-----
- -> From: Sam Tregar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- -> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:31 AM
- -> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- -> Subject: Re: the C JIT
- ->
- ->
- -> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
- ->
- -> > Perl looks, and AFAIK has always looked, like "C plus lune
noise" to
- -> > many people.
- ->
- -> I think Perl looks like "C plus moon noise" to former C
programmers. I
- -> imagine some people see it and think "Csh plus Awk noise". Perl
is a lot
- -> more than C-with-scalars.
- ->
- -> > strong typing
- ->
- -> C's typing is not particularily strong. Witness the common abuse
of
- -> "(void *)". Witness enums that are all compatible with integers.
If we
- -> want strong typing (I don't) there are better places to look.
- ->
- -> > run-time efficiency
- ->
- -> C doesn't get run-time efficiency from its syntax, so we can't
really
- -> expect to get anything here. It gets it from its compilation
- -> architecture. If you want to build a Perl frontend for GCC I
think you
- -> might find a way leverage C's efficiency but you won't get it just
by
- -> accepting C syntax.
- ->
- -> -sam
- ->
- ->
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