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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