Thanks for the clarification.
I assumed perl was what i assumed it to be. Thnaks for putting me on the
right wavelength :-)
Darren
Darren Ferguson
Software Engineer
Openband
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Frank Finner wrote:
> According to "Programming Perl", Preface:
>
> "Unlike a strictly interpreted language such as the shell, which
> compiles and executes a script at one command at a time, Perl first
> compiles your whole program quickly into an intermediate format. Like
> any other compiler, it performs various optimizations... Once Perl�s
> compiler frontend is happy with your program, it passes off the
> intermediate code to the interpreter to execute..."
>
> mfg Frank Finner
>
> On 14-Dec-01 Darren Ferguson sat down, thought for a long time and then
> wrote:
> > Perl is an interpreted language. It does not convert into byte code.
> >
> > It is scanned each time you can it so the interpreter has to go
> > through
> > everything line by line.
> --
> Frank Finner
>
> And now there is no turning back at all.
> (M. Moorcock, "Elric Of Melnibone")"
>
