al@io.cs.pittsburgh.edu (Alan Martello) (01/25/90)
First, I love perl as a language for
1) system programming applications and "hacks"
2) prototyping algorithms for my research
On this second note, while perl is great for the inital prototype,
once I go to scale up (i.e. I need to run faster) and recode the
application, I regretfully have to leave the perl code behind.
Does anyone have any plans or ideas for a "perl -> C" translator?
The code need not be pretty (certainly "yacc" output isn't),
just functional.
No flames please, I recognize perl's limitations, but on the
other hand, so much of the "uninteresting" code I deal with is
handling regular expressions, strings, etc. which is a pleasure
to do in perl. (yes, I've used perl front ends which interface
to C programs to do this somewhat, but sometimes using perl
in a pipe isn't a viable alternative).
ideas (or anything on the back burner) anyone ?
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Alan R. Martello Electrical Engineering Dept.
al@ee.pitt.edu University of Pittsburgh
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