Re: Perl Implementation Language

[Dan Sugalski]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:17:47PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> > That's fine for the VM and the support libraries, but I'd *really* like
> > to see the parser/front-end in Perl. There are dozens of RFCs that require
> > some non-trivial extensions to the parser. It would be nice to code these
> > in Perl
> 
> Are there any better reasons than "It would be nice?"

It'd make things easier? (I'd rather write a parser in perl than C...)

I think wedges into the parser/lexer (heck, all of the perl interpreter's
pieces) are in order, though we might not want to write the lower-level
bits in perl.

                                        Dan