pvo@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill) (06/13/90)
In article <8348@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: > >Included below is a VERY rudimentary pager using the curses version of >perl. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Is this using Henk P. Penning's cterm.pl stuff? Or stuff we haven't seen yet? Thankx. Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu DoD 000006 Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-737-3251
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (06/14/90)
In article <18865@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> pvo@oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill) writes: : In article <8348@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: : > : >Included below is a VERY rudimentary pager using the curses version of : >perl. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : > : : Is this using Henk P. Penning's cterm.pl stuff? Or stuff we haven't seen yet? Stuff you haven't seen yet. I don't intend to provide curses in normal perl, but after the next patch you'll be able to build a version of perl that supports whatever your favorite libraries are. It basically is a way for you to make C subroutines and variables look like Perl subroutines and variables. Larry
wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) (06/14/90)
In <8373@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall, praise him) writes: >but after the next patch you'll be able to build a version of perl that >supports whatever your favorite libraries are. It basically is a way for >you to make C subroutines and variables look like Perl subroutines and >variables. Can't you do some sort of dynamic loading so we don't get too many perl executables? What about stripped down perls and a perl compiler which generates smaller stand-alone scripts? Where is perl going, anyway? -Mitch "First there was GNU emacs; it had stuff like mail, news, ftp, csh, and lisp built in, and filled 32 Gigabytes of Cray-2 memory per user. Then the GNU project expanded and gave us bison, ghostscript, bash, gcc, gas, g++, gawk, pax, and a slew of other great stuff which forced us to buy a few more Gigabytes of memory for the expanding cray-2 cluster. GNU is rumored to come out with an operating system, but I suspect it will require at least 4 Terabytes to boot the kernel... Uzi (unix for z80) runs in 32K; v6 ran in 64K. v7 kernels are under 80K for 68020s.
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (06/15/90)
According to wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle): >Can't you do some sort of dynamic loading so we don't get too many perl >executables? If you want to put in a dynamic loader, Larry is providing a way for you to do it. Oh, you want HIM to do it? TAANSTAFL, dude. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>