genuine squeak newbie

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Mon Jun 21 15:05:27 UTC 1999


Peter Suk writes:

> The Perl community does a
> better job of sharing and reusing code, IMO.

I'd be interested to hear how the Perl community achieves a better level of
code sharing and reuse.  Perhaps there are some simple things the Squeak
community could adopt and benefit from.

> What about running Perl on top of the Squeak VM, and providing
> some things that are missing in Perl?  (Like Regular
> Expressions as first class objects)

Andrew Greenberg did a nice job of wrappering the regular expression library
that Python and Perl (I think) use.  Have you looked at it?

- Stephen





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