Re: I'm a lurker too ...

At 08:22 PM 8/10/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> writes:
> >On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Mike Lacey wrote:
> >> From: "Dan Sugalski" <[email protected]>
> >> > At 03:39 PM 8/7/00 -0400, lovine wrote:
> >> > >1. A Perl to C or Perl to machine code compiler. Perl is fast, but
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> > perl-visible bits, and a group of volunteers. Strictly speaking it's 
> not a
> >> > perl 6 core thing. (Writing portable windowing code across all the
> >> > platforms perl runs on would be.... interesting :)
> >>
> >> but a challenge Dan, a challenge <grin>
> >
> >Sure, and go for it--I'd love a good X-based integrated GUI development
> >environment. I'm just not sure it's really something to be part of the
> >core distribution. (For all I know, it'll be bigger than the core...)
>
>Probably. Tk distribution is comparable in size to perl disrribution.

Then that'd be a fun thing to get past folks. The new perl 6 distribution, 
a mere three times the size of the old perl 5... :)

					Dan

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