On 03/07/2009, at 11:00 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I'd really _like_ to be able to avoid having to require external >> executables either, if it can be managed, but that's harder since it >> means having a pure PHP implementation of the scripting language. >> (ouch!) >> >> -- brion >> > We could always have a default implementation in PHP, and optionally > provide the same functionality but faster in a C module.
Writing an interpreter for a language is not trivial. Writing it in C, and then porting to PHP is even worse. Even if you could find somebody to write it, it would have to be reviewed, as well. -- Andrew Garrett Contract Developer, Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] http://werdn.us _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
