I remember hearing about this a few years ago. A bit later I heard that they got it running, and found that what they got running was way too slow to be useful. Perl's highly dynamic internal opcodes are not a good match for C#'s internal bytecode engine.

I believe that ActiveState sells a product that links a native C version of Perl into C#. I've not heard anything more (and I'm not sure that they do - I don't use Windows or C# so don't rely on me for those products).

But if you want a scripting language built into C#, I've heard that IronPython is a fairly complete implementation. I consider Python and Perl pretty similar in capability (if not "feel"), so that might meet your needs.

In reply to Re: Perl compiler for .NET - anyone knows anything about it? by tilly
in thread Perl compiler for .NET - anyone knows anything about it? by techcode

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