Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Jan 14, 2008 12:38 PM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Was there a programming perl book for Perl 1? Or any other books? For now I'm kinda stuck, because I don't know the exact semantics of each construct of Perl 1. I ran into the same thing. The first

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Was there a programming perl book for Perl 1? Or any other books? For now I'm kinda stuck, because I don't know the exact semantics of each construct of Perl 1. I ran into the same thing. The first edition of Programming perl wasn't until Perl 4. The best you're going

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Unless I misunderstood the Yacc/bison manual, the /order/ in which the operator associativity is declared, defines the precedence, from top to bottom in increasing order. So: %left '+' '-' %left '*' '/' '%' means that *, / and % take precedence over + and -. Aye, but

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:35:57PM -0500, jesse wrote: If only Perl1 source would compile, then it'd be easier, but it doesn't compile on windows (xp) and can't get it working on cygwin either. That sounds like the sort of situation where VMWare Player and, say, an ubuntu or redhat

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
jesse wrote: If only Perl1 source would compile, then it'd be easier, but it doesn't compile on windows (xp) and can't get it working on cygwin either. That sounds like the sort of situation where VMWare Player and, say, an ubuntu or redhat virtual machine might come in really handy. I don't

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Jan 14, 2008 11:29 AM, Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jesse wrote: I don't believe Perl 1 was ever ported to Windows. Well, actually it kinda was. ;-) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl1.porters/2005/11/msg46.html Cool! So where's that patch you mentioned? The

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Jan 14, 2008 5:57 PM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 11:29 AM, Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jesse wrote: I don't believe Perl 1 was ever ported to Windows. Well, actually it kinda was. ;-)

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread ajr
For a fun bit of trivia, spend some time comparing Perl 1's perl.y and Perl 5's perly.y. Amazing how much still persists after 20 years. Technological Cheshire cats; the grin lingers long after the cat has disappeared. Computing has them by the clowder. -- Email and shopping with the

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 5:57 PM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 2008 11:29 AM, Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jesse wrote: I don't believe Perl 1 was ever ported to Windows. Well, actually it kinda was. ;-)

Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-13 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hi, I've been working a bit on Perl 1 (Punie), but writing a compiler for a language that I never used is kinda tricky :-P It's really nice to look at Perl 1 and see how it has evolved over time. Of course, it'd be quite interesting to compare speed of Perl 1 and Punie (perl 1 on parrot). Does

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-13 Thread jesse
If only Perl1 source would compile, then it'd be easier, but it doesn't compile on windows (xp) and can't get it working on cygwin either. That sounds like the sort of situation where VMWare Player and, say, an ubuntu or redhat virtual machine might come in really handy. I don't believe Perl