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		Denvercoder9 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard Rust requirements from May onward Perl has been a hard dependency of the base system since forever and it doesn't have a specification nor more than one interpreter.

gmueckl 17 days ago [–]

The only spec you need meet to get Perl or Python running on a new platform is the C spec. A compiler meeting that spec is enough to port and compile the interpreter for a new platform.

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