I thought this was interesting enough to re-post; it's a mailing list post from last year on why an effort to port Perl 5 to the JVM was abandoned: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/08/msg150099.html
"I'm just pointing out how these language features, some of which have much broader use cases than the problem they were intended to solve, interact to basically make non-heuristic parsing and all forms of static analysis (that I can think of) basically impossible." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en.
