Re: [OT] Perl to C Converter?

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:55:10 GMT

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:11:55 GMT, Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com> wrote:
>
>
> Alan Connor wrote:
>
>> There are utilities for converting one programming language to another.
>> Why not this one?
>> Why couldn't that programmer that knows both languages sit down and
>> write a perl2C converter in C?
>
> 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.

And perl would lose a lot of users. Someone would set up an ftp site
with C versions of most of the perl programs and who wouldn't choose
them over perl if they weren't interested in learning to program in perl?

> Look at "perldoc -q compile" to see how others have done similar.
> -Joe

Okay. Thanks.

But why would they have "done similar" if such an effort has "insufficient
payoff"?

AC

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