From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T03:37:47+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

Just curious - is using C++ for the source instead of C an option?

/me ducks rotten vegetables being hurled at him by the crowd.

No, seriously.  Once upon a time Chip Salzenburg, one of the core Perl
developers, was working on a complete rewrite of the Perl internals
using C++.  He had nicknamed the project "Topaz" and even presented the
topic at TPC 3 (I believe).  At one point thise was going to be Perl6 if
it had come to fruition.  Here's a link to the story.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/09/topaz.html

Chip makes some interesting arguments, discussing why you might choose
C++ over C (macros), Ada, Eiffel and Objective C.  Might at least be
worth contacting him to see what his "final thoughts" on the project
were.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Dan