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Re: Is Perl written in C?

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On Sunday, March 4, 2012 4:48:35 PM UTC, BGB wrote:
> On 3/4/2012 2:56 AM, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> > BGB<cr88192@hotmail.com>  wrote:

> >> I looked briefly at LLVM before, and it looked sort of like someone was
> >> all like "C++ isn't like Java enough, we sort of need to do it more like
> >> Java, but more badly...".
> >
> >    What's the point in using C++ if you will be writing in Java anyways?
> 
> I am not saying anyone was using Java, rather LLVM seemed to have been 
> written in a vaguely Java-like style, with one-class-per-file, large 
> numbers to includes to include each header file, ...

one-class-per-file is quite a common way to package C++. I wouldn't describe it as Java-like.

> the contrast is to basically dump a bunch of class definitions into 
> shared headers, and maybe aggregate classes in source-files as well, ...
> 
> then, one breaks things up, like say when the files get longer than 
> 1000-2000 lines and start getting unwieldy.
> 
> as well as probably doing the thing of making "compound headers", where 
> one includes a single header and gets all relevant headers for the 
> entire library, without having to include them individually (the 
> compound header includes all sub-headers).
> 
> the advantage to the above is that it only requires a single 
> include-line per source file (and helps keep everything more 
> consistent). a disadvantage though is that of typically longer build times.
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  Re: Is Perl written in C? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-03-03 08:38 -0600
    Re: Is Perl written in C? Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-03 22:41 +0800
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        Re: Is Perl written in C? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-03 17:08 +0000
          Re: Is Perl written in C? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-03-04 07:02 +0000
        Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-03 12:08 -0700
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            Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-04 00:01 -0700
              Re: Is Perl written in C? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-03-04 09:56 +0000
                Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-04 09:48 -0700
                Re: Is Perl written in C? nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-03-05 00:53 -0800
                Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-05 08:08 -0700
                Re: Is Perl written in C? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-06 08:38 +0900
                Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-05 17:06 -0700
                Re: Is Perl written in C? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-06 10:00 +0900
                Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-05 19:35 -0700
                Re: Is Perl written in C? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-03-06 09:29 +0000
                Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-06 09:20 -0700
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                Re: Is Perl written in C? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-05 19:24 -0700
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