Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> one of the big goals I have is to get everything specified enough that
> someone can produce another version of perl from scratch.
[..]
> The final specs that define those bits of perl's internal behavior that are
> user-visible (like the hooks in the
bkuhn wrote:
> > Why should we center our entire design around C?
Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because Perl is a write-once-run-anywhere platform, and C is the only
> viable way of maintaining Perl support on all of the platforms currently
> supported.
>
> Because most (all?) of
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why should we center our entire design around C? Sure, the canonical perl6
>
> Because that's what we got. Because that's what we have in the maximal
> number of platforms. Because that's what works.
The design doesn't have to center around
