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Re: zwgc with perl interpreter (was: undead zwgcs)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew K Gray)
Sun Oct 4 13:36:04 1998
To: David Nolan <vitroth+@cmu.edu>
Cc: zephyr@MIT.EDU
From: Matthew K Gray <mkgray@MIT.EDU>
Date: 04 Oct 1998 13:28:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: David Nolan's message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:36:07 -0400"
> In fact this has already been done for perl. Someone at MIT did a version
> of zwgc called Zion that just replaced the zwgc interpreter with a perl
> interpreter, and provides a few functions (notably put, and fields) to the
> interpreter.
That someone is me. :-)
> As far as I can tell no one at MIT has touched this in ages, but I did some
> work on it a while back to make it work in the current CMU zephyr source.
> I also wrote a few perl functions to provide some other useful features
> (stylestrip, protect, verbatim, etc.)
It's true I haven't touched it in almost a year (though I still use it
as do a few others at MIT) but I don't know if I'd call that 'ages'. :-)
I talked briefly with Greg Hudson quite a while ago about the
possibility of integrating the zion changes in the main zwgc
distribution, but never went anywhere with it...
...Matthew
