AFAIK ActiveStates did try this and found it too slow.
Perl is too different from the languages MS had in mind that it can't be effectively compiled to IL. And keep in mind that all those heavily optimized Perl builtins would have to be implemented in IL.
Yes, I know :(
I was hoping once the Perl Porters "gives birth" to AI - creates the Matrix and starts a new realm - we could just erase all the other languages.
:) -Sx-
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