On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:18:05AM -0500, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:06:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Because the Python folks didn't have a problem basing JPython off of
> > > CPython.
> >
> > Actually, this one isn't a good comparison. Python is substantially easier
> > to parse, and, is a much simpler language. I like Perl because it is more
> > complicated, but that also comes with a burden that we design its
> > implementation more carefully.
> >
> > Larry worked for a summer trying to mold the C implementation of Perl into a
> > JVM port. I have spent substantially more time than that on it than that.
> > It's a hard problem. I'll be happy to send you chapters of my Master's
> > Thesis that I am finishing up this month, that is making the detailed
> > arguments as to why it is a hard problem.
>
> Yes please.
Yes, *PLEASE*. Some hard data is always nice, even when (or especially
when) it's unpleasant to hear.
> > I believe the difficult that we've had porting perl5 to the JVM is a bug in
> > perl5's design. I am trying to encourage people to fix that bug in perl6.
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