I don't know if anyone else in the pop11 world has used Perl much, but there
seems to me to be some stiking similarities. Perl has:
* Lexical and dynmaically scoped variables
* Referance variables
* Anonymous subroutines
* & therefore closures
* Packages (sections in pop11)
* Compiles into a bytecode
Some noticeable differences are that:
* bytecode is interpreted rather than fully compiled
* No incremental compilation as standard although this could be added
* No true garbage collection (uses simple referance counting instead)
* Variables are not referances by default like they are in pop11 for all
but the simplest types.
Anyone else spotted this?
Richard
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