Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:37:02PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Well, maybe we can do it in befunge instead.

+!+!@@!!!

> Oh, without a doubt. I'd actually like to get things building such that the 
> four main modules--parser, bytecode compiler, optimizer, and execution 
> engine--are in separate shared libraries, and dynamically replaceable. (or 
> at least done with a quick relink)

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Incidentally, I think that's a
good idea.

> (Or a C source module, or ties into the GEM

The Atari ST to my right just perked up.

> What's this piece do that B::C or B::CC don't do? I'm confused here.

It doesn't embed an interpreter. It outputs "native" C.

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    print "Hello world\n";
  
translates to

    int
    main (int argc, char **argv)
    {

    #line 2 "hello.pl"
    printf("%s", "Hello world\n");
    }
 
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