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This week's (or is it last week's?) Need To Know now mentions Inline! I should perhaps point out that being insulted on NTK is probably the highest honour possible in the world of computing, so people read the piece the right way. [...] > > >> TRACKING << > sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering > > You know those scenes in movies where they've finally nabbed > the evil shape-shifting metamorph, and it's thrashing around > in its final death throes, transmuting from one form to > another - husky, lycanthrope, fourth Dr Who, Sarah Connor, > Mrs Thatcher and back? We get the feeling this is what's > happening with the condemned Perl5 codebase. Desperately > trying to reform as Perl6, the organism has previously > attempted to assimilate all other languages (via Inline.pm). > Now BRIDGEKEEPER has assisted it in reforming as a Python > program. Goebul Consult's hybrid code will take most > current Perl programs and turn them into the most mongrel > Python code you ever did see. Proving that: you *can* write > unreadable Python code - if you have help. And You Can Not > Kill That Which Is Unmaintainable. > http://goebel-consult.de/bridgekeeper/ >- you need to change Decomperl to Bridgekeeper in bridgekeeper.pm, line 210 > http://inline.perl.org/inline/home.html > - pathologically polluting perl It sounds like Bridgekeeper might be considered the Pythonization and Perlifization of Inline::Python (which, based on the docs, also seems to include similar functionality), except that BK translates the code (rather than execute it). Congratulations to Brian Ingerson, Neil Watkiss and all the remaining Inliners! -- Ariel Scolnicov |http://3w.compugen.co.il/~ariels Compugen Ltd. |[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sometimes people write an 72 Pinhas Rosen St. |Tel: +972-3-7658117 accidental haiku. Damn! Tel-Aviv 69512, ISRAEL |Fax: +972-3-7658555 It just happened!"
