Note!!

This project was probably largely superseded by webperl.

Live

• http://www.shlomifish.org/microperl-web-repl-v1/repl.html

• Tested with Firefox 28, chromium-browser 34

• May not work on mobile browsers.

About

This is perl without CPAN/POSIX/XS/Bundled Modules, aka just perl and none of the fluff. It is derived from the microperl and miniperl build files of the perl-5.16.3 code.

Installation

• Linux

make
make plutest
./plu -e "print 'hello world'"

• Emscripten (Console)

make -f Makefile_emcc CONSOLE=1
cat entry_point.js plu.js > plu.run.js
node plu.run.js virtual_file.pl

• Emscripten (for Web)

make -f Makefile_emcc
cp plu.js to web_repl/js/microperl.js
Open web_repl/repl.html in a browser !

There is also a CONSOLE=1 make option which generates plu.console.js, for debugging.

Shoutout

• http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html (for inspiration)

• https://github.com/themucker/ for doing some of the initial work on perl for JavaScript.

• Shlomi Fish (http://www.shlomifish.org/) from #perl (me) for later updates

TODO

• Unit test emscripten code.

• Write limitations.

• Select a few CPAN modules for bundling.

• REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) oriented towards beginners.

• s/js/perl/ ? (Don’t think so, but a possibility).

• Experiment with the perl source code for fun and profit !

License

Artistic License 1 + GPLv1-or-above