Re: New Perl rewrite - embedded Perl

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:16 PM 9/11/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:12:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > ye, wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Yes, I agree with you that Perl kernel is too big to embed into other
> > > program.
> >
> > You do?  I don't.  INN has been embedding Perl for years, quite
> > successfully.
>
>There's embedding and there's embedding.  Embedding in an UNIX server
>is different than from embedding in a RTOS microcontroller.

Sure, but the original poster did bring up mod_perl as a failure of 
embedding, which pretty much assumes the first type of embedding. (Not that 
I don't want p6 to be embeddable in hardware, mind--the idea of a teddy 
bear running perl rather amuses me... :)

                                         Dan

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