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From: al@io.cs.pittsburgh.edu (Alan Martello)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl -> C anyone?
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Date: 24 Jan 90 22:31:36 GMT
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First, I love perl as a language for 
1) system programming applications and "hacks"
2) prototyping algorithms for my research

On this second note, while perl is great for the inital prototype,
once I go to scale up (i.e. I need to run faster) and recode the
application, I regretfully have to leave the perl code behind.

Does anyone have any plans or ideas for a "perl -> C" translator?
The code need not be pretty (certainly "yacc" output isn't), 
just functional.

No flames please, I recognize perl's limitations, but on the 
other hand, so much of the "uninteresting" code I deal with is
handling regular expressions, strings, etc. which is a pleasure
to do in perl.  (yes, I've used perl front ends which interface
to C programs to do this somewhat, but sometimes using perl
in a pipe isn't a viable alternative).

ideas (or anything on the back burner) anyone ?



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       Alan R. Martello        Electrical Engineering Dept.
        al@ee.pitt.edu           University of Pittsburgh
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