At 06:53 PM 10/17/00 +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:
>In terms of bootstrapping, however, we either need to:
> - Write the Perl subset in C (or some other portable language), or
> - Use Perl 5 as the 'Perl subset', and distribute that with Perl 6.
>
>The 2nd of these options seems unlikely to be practical...
You'd be surprised. :)
There's no reason we can't ship a few bytecode files with perl for the
pieces of perl 6 written in perl. There's a bootstrapping issue, of
course--to start we'd have to write the code in something that perl 5
understands, but once we've a working perl 6 interpreter we can switch over
to that. (It'll be interesting--for a while the perl 6 interpreter will
have a perl 5 interpreter embedded in it...)
Dan
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