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Datum: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:55:53 +0900
Von: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <
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An: (e-mail address removed)
Betreff: Re: Ruby to Perl translation
that work as a C extension of Ruby, couldn't you ?
You're being sarcastic, right?
Dear Ed,
mmmh, probably, you're right.
I'm not sure whether any Perl script existed that
I'd personally like to use in Ruby with the following additional features:
- no Ruby solution for the underlying problem on RAA,
- I'd not be able to write one in Ruby in less time than the C extension
approach would cost me ( and it sometimes takes me a long time to get to
working code...).
I didn't write that to offend anyone though.
Every three months, I find it bothersome that there seems to be no
negative lookahead in Ruby regexps, and just recently, I discovered
that there is a library that has that -- written for Lua, partly
in C, partly in Lua, so I was wondering how much work it would be
to replace the C functions whose names start in 'lua_' by the actual
C code Lua is written in itself.
So, it wouldn't be necessary to rewrite the whole language, but only
a part of it, which could make the resulting script more lightweight.
(Lua promises to be a very lightweight, C extension and glue language --
I don't think the same holds true for Perl ;-)).
To do that for one application alone is certainly shooting with cannons
on birds, but if a specific grammar software achieving that were available, one could borrow nice solutions from other scripting languages more
easily ...
I admit that starting this for Perl is probably extremely involved
and most likely practically infeasible ... I just hoped that
someone had some nice code ready to solve all my problems -- as has
happened so many times before with Ruby
.
Best regards,
Axel