From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190603310049q6ea3c5c5n9480f6ff08d6d3df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:49:10 +1100 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060331075638.51bec364@localhost.localdomain> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 294adb40-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 #pragma perl oh the horror ... brucee On 3/31/06, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > Don't know anything else that has put it in the language. Anyone? > > i'd forgotten about it being in newspeak, but given that it was currie > it might well have worked. poor old RSRE. otherwise, attempts to > build it into languages turned up periodically during the 70s, but i > think it ended up being more trouble than it was worth, in the `least > of your worries' sense of that's not what usually causes the failures. > (in my case, it's usually ignorance or stupidity.) just to prove me > wrong, it's probably somewhere in perl. > >