On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> And, it will make the barrier for entry for new internals hacker lower.
Really? Do you honestly believe there are more Java programmers than C
programmers? Particularily in the Perl development community!
> I would note that if we write in Java, we aren't targeting a single
> compiler, although at the moment, the only efficient compiler for Java might
> be GCJ.
It speaks volumes that the only efficient compiler is vaporware. How fast
is it? Who knows - it's not finished! Does it have major flaws?
Probably - but just wait and see how fast it is!
Let's move on - C is our only real option. It's portable enough (proven
by perl5), it's fast enough (or nothing is) and we already have in-house
experts to lead the implementation. Are we serriously considering
anything else? PIL? If someone here has a real proposal for a
better-than-cpp macro language then let's hear it. It's worth considering
in a purely abstract keep-an-open-mind sense.
-sam
