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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl as an extension language?
Keywords: perl editors extensible
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.204547.22592@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 20:45:47 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.163116.8538@groucho>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
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In-Reply-To: root@snake.cs.uidaho.edu

In article <1991Jan16.163116.8538@groucho>, root@snake writes:
| Has anyone ever considered creating an editor with perl as the extension 
| language?  I'm more than willing to work on it myself, but thought I would 
| make sure no one has tread this path before.  Please no flames about why
| this is a really bad idea or "nine reasons that it's impossible".

Well, you could do it by implementing it in Perl.  Perl's got enough
bells and whistles (and gongs and slide trombones and ... :-) to write
a decent editor.  Once you got it running, you could figger out where
it's spending most of its time, and write those in C through the
"usersub" hooks.

Didn't we talk about this about a year ago?

die "get the latest Perl!" if $] < 3.044; open(A,"|uncompress");
print A pack("H*","1f9d904aeacca103228c9b3774d094910302ca423620d08419b366210b")
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