Re: Perl6 in Java? (was Re: Meta-design)

[John Porter]

Piers Cawley wrote:
> 
> > And, it will make the barrier for entry for new internals hacker
> > lower.
> 
> Err. How do you get to that conclusion? The thing that really stops me
> mucking about with perl's internals is the fiendish complexity of said
> internals. Changing the programming language will not, of itself,
> reduce that complexity.

That's not necessarily true.  A large part of current complexity, of
the sort that presents a barrier to entry, stems directly from using C.
While a direct port to X wouldn't necessarily eliminate a lot of that,
a logical re-write (or a re-design/re-write, of the sort we're undertaking)
could.

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John Porter

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