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Date:Mon Nov 24 22:48:57 1996 
Subject:Pop11 & Perl 
From:Richard Matthias 
Volume-ID:961126.01 

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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