[OT] perl and CLRs (.NET rocks)

[Simon Wistow]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:25:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark said:
> I also don't think that it's the "only perl can parse Perl" meme.
> 
> I suspect that it's because
> 
> 1: any variable can be tied
> 2: any value can be overloaded
> 
> and hence there is a lot of logic to deal with this everywhere.

As a gedanken experiment ...

Various ports of Python (Stackless and Iron IIRC) have gone for a 80% 
approach.

So, what features of Perl would have to go to make a putative port 
easier?

Or, thinking the other way round, what features from Perl would be 
necessary to have a minimally compatible (where minimally is a number 
defined over --> there. Somewhere.) Perl-like-language?

Simon