PGE 0.1, in C (Nov 2004)
PGE 0.1 was released in November 2004
Parser and code generator written in C
However:
- Perl 6 requires Unicode
- Rules must be Unicode aware
- Unicode in C is not pretty.
- Parrot already handles Unicode natively (or at least it's supposed to).
Decided to just (re)write it in native Parrot.
We'll optimize this later if/when it is needed.
(Laziness and delegation can be your friends.)