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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: p2c (was Re: a program by any other name...)
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Date: 13 Apr 90 02:48:03 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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The name of it might well be perl -c.  You could almost pipe the output
of perl -D1024 to a code generator.

Spitting out C code isn't the hard part.  The hard part is writing the
library to go with it...

The runtime system of perl 3.0 is much closer to what you'd need than 2.0
was, but it's not all the way there yet.  This was part of the motivation
for going to something more resembling a stack machine internally.

I know, we could name it "pc", and offend the Pascallers, the radicals
and IBM all at once.

Larry