Developer Creates An Experimental Perl 5 To Java Compiler (perl.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday May 14, 2017 @04:34AM from the more-than-one-way-to-do-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Saturday night saw the announcement of an experimental Perl 5 to Java compiler. "This is the first release," posted developer FlÃvio S. Glock -- after 100 weeks of development. "Note that you don't need to compile a Java file. Perlito5 now compiles the Perl code to JVM bytecode in memory and executes it." He describes the compiler as "a work-in-progress" that "provides an impressive coverage of Perl features, but it will not run most existing Perl programs due to platform differences."

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Perl to Java Bytecode? by KermodeBear · 2017-05-14 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, that's one way to make Perl even more unreadable. :P

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oh goodie by ooloorie · 2017-05-14 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny

The unpalatable compiling to the unspeakable.
1. Re:oh goodie by thegarbz · 2017-05-14 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  And in most cases resulting in the unworkable.
1996 Called... by Waffle+Iron · 2017-05-14 07:30 · Score: 1, Funny

... it wants its two hottest languages back.