On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Tim Peters wrote: > At the O'Reilly conference, it was announced that the Perl rewrite in C++ > (codenamed Topaz) has been abandoned. I didn't attend that session, but my > impression from others is that they attempted to model Perl objects directly > by C++ objects, and were frustrated by the consequent lack of low-level > control. As another data-point, I've heard from reliable sources that Topaz was written to use bleeding edge C++, including all manners of weird templates. C++ I might be able to live with, but a very least common denominator C++ -- otherwise you hurt the well-known Python portability, which is a major strength. -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> There is no IGLU cabal. http://advogato.org/person/moshez
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