Re: [OT] Perl to C Converter?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 08/23/04


Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:45:54 GMT

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:33:56 GMT, Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com> wrote:
>
>
> Alan Connor wrote:
>
>>>Too much effort, insufficient payoff.
>>
>> Huh? Most of the perl groups are dead. Millions of gigabytes of hdd
>> space could be saved, as well as all the other system resources that
>> perl requires.
>>
>> Such a program would be used extensively.
>
> You can't be serious.

About what? Most of the perl groups *are* dead. Check it out yourself.

Vast amounts of hdd space and other system resources (and thus energy,
for manufacturing and transportation and operation) *could* be saved.

> That makes no sense at all.

It makes a *lot* of sense.

> Do you hate Perl
> that much?

Who said I hate perl? *You* said that. It's just redundant: C or
bash can do everything that perl does with a fraction of the system
resources. I like efficiency and versatility.

I don't like having to learn a redundant programming language that
takes more system resources than I need to run a complete nix OS.

>
>>>Look at "perldoc -q compile" to see how others have done similar.
>>
>> Okay. Thanks.
>>
>> But why would they have "done similar" if such an effort has "insufficient
>> payoff"?
>
> Read the docs. "Done similar" = convince perl to output bytecodes
> instead of executing them, and then running the bytecodes through
> a perl-runtime-bytecode interpreter.
> -Joe

I have been reading about that feature, here and on the Web. Want a bunch
of un-decipherable code that doesn't execute?

AC



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