Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 07:47 PM 10/23/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:39:14PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Got me. I'd planned on us writing perl 6 in INTERCAL.
>
>     PLEASE LET'S NOT GO THAT WAY

Awwww... you're no fun! :)

>Incidentally, and just to try and raise the tone a little, are we planning on
>compiling Perl 6 programs to native binaries?

That is one of the scenarios. There are some issues with it for a project 
like this--spitting out binaries directly requires rather more carnal 
knowledge of the OS/processor pair than something like an interpreter or 
C-code-spitter does.

It's likely to be a secondary target, after a 'normal' interpreter. (Though 
if someone comes up with a way to make the platform-dependent bits really 
small and isolated I'm all for it)

                                        Dan

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