Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: PERL compiler ?!? Message-ID: <1990Nov11.004221.11147@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 11 Nov 90 00:42:21 GMT References: Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) In article , mitch@hq (Mitch Wright) writes: | Even if this message gets alot of BOOs, I still think it would be a nifty | project -- maybe for a compiler class. We went through this about six months ago. If you have power of "eval", you have to have an interpreter in the run-time package. And since Larry goes to great pains to compile the code to an efficient pile-o'-bits before running it, you probably wouldn't gain much by turning that data structure inside-out into a bunch of procedure calls. But, hey, if you've got student labor, go for it. :-) | ``A system without PERL is like a hockey game without a fight.'' | -- Mitch Wright Can we put that in The Book? That's a good one! print "Just another Perl [book] hacker," -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel put the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."=========/