root@snake.cs.uidaho.edu (01/17/91)
Please include all the standard disclaimers about being new to the group etc... Has anyone ever considered creating an editor with perl as the extension language? I'm more than willing to work on it myself, but thought I would make sure no one has tread this path before. Please no flames about why this is a really bad idea or "nine reasons that it's impossible". Mike Simon Systems manager simon@ted.cs.uidaho.edu
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) (01/17/91)
In article <1991Jan16.163116.8538@groucho>, root@snake writes: | Has anyone ever considered creating an editor with perl as the extension | language? I'm more than willing to work on it myself, but thought I would | make sure no one has tread this path before. Please no flames about why | this is a really bad idea or "nine reasons that it's impossible". Well, you could do it by implementing it in Perl. Perl's got enough bells and whistles (and gongs and slide trombones and ... :-) to write a decent editor. Once you got it running, you could figger out where it's spending most of its time, and write those in C through the "usersub" hooks. Didn't we talk about this about a year ago? die "get the latest Perl!" if $] < 3.044; open(A,"|uncompress"); print A pack("H*","1f9d904aeacca103228c9b3774d094910302ca423620d08419b366210b") -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel: putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."====/