Hi all, thanks to everyone who came to the meeting, and special thanks to Issac for giving an interesting talk about writing distributed apps using Gearman. I'm sorry that Erez couldn't make it eventually, and I hope we can hear him talk at a later date.
Some people (including me) had difficulty in finding the room, and for future reference, one should climb to the second floor and then climb an extra flight of stairs that extends from the corridor there, with a white door at the top with the label "software engineering" department. Anyway, some people mentioned emscripten there which compiles LLVM to JavaScript ( https://github.com/kripken/emscripten ) and people mentioned that it was used to port CPython and the ruby interpreter to JavaScript. I noted that someone else and I started working on a JavaScript port of the /usr/bin/perl C source code using it - https://github.com/themucker/plu . Last time I tried, it required some manual tweaks to the final output (due to what appear to be emscripten bugs), and themucker seems to have disappeared for a while, so I'll need to find some time and motivation to work on it again. Reading the Python source of emscripten itself made me appreciate Perl's quoting features again as exemplified in Ran's old talk about quoting, because I ran into some triple quoted strings inside triple quoted strings there with three backslashes (something like \'\'\'). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Favourite FOSS - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/favourite/ An original philosopher knows the right combination of ideas to steal. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
