Re: Re: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess?

<diatribe>
yes, but when they wrote that, perl was still a sincere second banana to C. to my mind, this is no longer the case; there are hordes of perl programmers who will never learn C or C++ because they have no need to. and, as i further understand it, perl6 will no longer be written in C. how much longer whould we encourage an artificial resemblance in the language?
</diatribe>

Comment on Re: Re: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess?

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Re: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess? by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 04, 2001 at 19:46 UTC
as i further understand it, perl6 will no longer be written in C I think you may be confusing Perl 6 with Topaz. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply]
Re (tilly) 4: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess? by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 04, 2001 at 21:48 UTC
I thought that Perl 6 will largely be written in Perl 6, allowing the base that needs to be implemented natively be as small as possible. Furthermore I heard that there will be multiple implementations of that base, including ones in C, C#, and the JVM. (Or at least that is a pipe dream that people had at one point.) Even if the most commonly used implementation of Perl 6 was written in C, this would make it true in spirit and fact that the overall language is not written in C any more.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Will/Can Perl 6 clean up the bit-wise operator precedence mess? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 04, 2001 at 19:44 UTC
and, as i further understand it, perl6 will no longer be written in C What will it be written in? C++ has the same operator precedence as C, so I assume you mean something besides that?	[reply]