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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I actually stumbled onto this list while I was
searching to see if anyone had come up with a tiny perl
cross-compiler/interpreter for use with modern microcontrollers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Most of the development work I do these days is on
Atmel micros which can have quite substantial amounts of memory (still measured
in kilobytes :-( ). Development is usually done using GNU C.
Perl's string handling, regular expressions and references would be really cool
to speed development of reliable code - but there is no way Perl 5 could be
shoehorned into a microcontroller!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was toying with the idea of perhaps using P2C -
or else embarking on a project to strip down Perl 4 and squeeze a small
interpreter into a microcontroller.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know if this wheel has already been
invented?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>