Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: p2c (was Re: a program by any other name...) Message-ID: <15348@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 10 Apr 90 02:18:38 GMT References: <101155@convex.convex.com> <1990Apr6.170914.8305@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Apr7.030242.367@chinet.chi.il.us> <15329@bfmny0.UU.NET> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Lines: 15 In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >I've thought about this too, in the guise of "ANSI Perl" ... Oooh, I like that. ANSI Perl, with prototypes. associative sub mysub(string $a, number array @b) { local volatile (*hardware_reg) = 0x00034; ... } system qq|perl -e 'system qq!echo Just another ANSI Perl hacker,!'| -- 'We have luck only with women -- not spacecraft!' \\ Tom Neff -- R. Kremnev, builder of failed Soviet FOBOS probes // tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET