In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Snip] > My ambition is to develop a decent Wimp library in Perl, but > until someone ports Perl as a language module it will remain > impractical to write small wimp programs in it because each > one would require such a huge wimpslot. Just imagine it > though! Perl as a module would mean no ten second wait while > it loads off disc *every* time, and the ability to run > multiple Wimp programs and still have memory left. Basic > would be rendered almost redundant as the core language. > Ahhh, just the thought of it makes me feel warm all over. > Maybe one day... *if* I keep my fingers crossed... I am impressed with the way Perl functions - and certainly with the amount of work that Nick Clark has done already to Riscosify it. I am not now a programmer - time's too limited, interruptions are too frequent and brain's not as flexible as it used to be - but I need a common language to do things here on our RISCOS network and also on the Unix server. I didn't want to revise Basic as that would mean having two two languages. Perl seems ideal. I guess what surprises me most about Perl is how short the programs are. They start to work long before they I expect them to! > > As James says 'Isn't Perl fun?'... > It gives you so much power to do anything you want that it's > almost magic. Well, *I* certainly get that Harry Potter feeling > when I think of an excuse to write something in Perl. :-D -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Torrens 4QD manufacture speed controllers for battery electric motors. www sites http://www.4QD.co.uk http://www.4QDtec.com http://www.4QD.org All email addresses are copyright. Resale or use on any lists is expressly forbidden ---------- We use a RISC PC 32 bit RISC computer ----------------
