Re^2: Can Perl do anything Java can do?

[Theodore]

Did anyone ever tried writing a JVM using Perl? That would be fun, for various values of "fun". :-P

[cavac]

I don't think anyone did the full on thing. But i found a few interesting dists on CPAN:

• Alien::Jerl - micro perl running on JVM (MIPS Interpreter)
• Java::Import - Use Java classes in Perl
• Inline::Java - Write Perl classes in Java.

So it turns out, you actually can do in Perl everything you can do in Java, because you can just load the Java code into the perl interpreter.