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Re: difficulty of writing translators


John Tobey writes:

> Maciej Stachowiak writes:
> 
> > Perl has fairly nice semantics but a hideous syntax. I can only
> > imagine parsing perl by using the exiting perl parser. Reimplementing
> > that code in a bogosity-compatible, er, I mean feature-compatible way
> > would be pretty hard.
> 
> It might be easier to start by writing a Perl-bytecode-to-Scheme
> translator.

or maybe just interpret Perl bytecode directly?  i wonder (having no
experience designing or analyzing bytecode systems) how configurable
the runtime portion of the bytecode usually is.

the early-1998 discussion of bytecode systems focused on speed -- can
someone comment on configurability?

thi