[Coco] Perl PL for OS/9

[William Schaub]

TP Reitzel wrote:
> Here's the bottom line. I'm busy. Aren't we all? ;)
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> I want to learn ONE programming language with modern features that's potentially capable of running on older 8-bit/16-bit architectures such as the CoCo.  I want this computer language to have scripting and functional programming features as well as traditional procedural capability. Perl6 (Rakudo on Parrot or Mildew) is one option if an embedded version were available. Personally, I also like Lua. Fortunately, a project has been started by developers working on an embedded version of Lua,  https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/elua-dev .  Maybe, this discussion should be generalized to include modern compilers on newer architectures generating intermediate/assembly code for older architectures as well. However, I ONLY have time to learn ONE language now and into the foreseeable future. TIA
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Doesn't sound very realistic to me. the closest thing you will find that 
is here right now is C. i think there are at least 2 C compilers around 
for the coco one in OS-9 and one that runs on a PC and cross compiles 
machine code for the coco.

Perl is a great language but even under a full featured UNIX system I 
still have to use other languages (mainly C  and a bit of shell scripting)

Even Perl itself it implemented using C unless I got things totally 
wrong I'm getting the impression that you only want to learn one 
language period.  It's far better to know at least a few languages. the 
good thing is that once you have learned one language it is easy to 
learn enough about a different language to be useful rather quickly.