On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:39:14PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 01:23 PM 9/11/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> >Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> > > If anyone's got any arguments in a particular direction, now would be the
> > > time. Once we're done wrangling, we'll start in on the features we need to
> > > write into the PIL translator, and get implementation of that started.
> >
> >I believe we should create a working reference implementation in perl5, which
> >can then be optimized into any implementation language as a porting problem.
>
> There is far too much of an impedance mismatch between perl and anything I
> know of that compiles for perl to be a useful implementation language.
I started planning a language to do with stack-based virtual machines what C
does with register-based real machines, but I have no idea where to stop
before achieving Perl. In Perl 5 internals, the same sorts of operations come
up again and again, enough to make me think we can build a language around
one.
Should I draft some kind of spec for this or am I, as usual, talking out of my
backside?
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