Subject: Re: A little direction please
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 14:16:21 AKST
* Arthur Corliss <arthur@corlissfamily.org> [030214 14:02]:
>
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> > I've read a little about the 'parrot' project - which is a
> > component of the Perl 6.0 (planned) implementation. If I understand
> > correctly, it is meant to compile both perl and python. Perhaps
> > Arthur knows more about that.
>
> Parrot was originally a April Fool's Day joke along those lines, and the Perl
> 6 developers thought it amusing enough to call the byte code execution engine
> that.
>
> As a psuedo virtual machine implementation, you could theoretically use any
> language to produce byte code that will execute on it, but Perl is (to my
> knowledge) the only language currently in development. If Perl 6 is a success
> (and I wouldn't bet against it ;-) you may see other languages adopt it as
> their core engine as well. But for now, the Python thing is still just part
> of an April Fool's Day joke.
Well, the jokes on me then ... :-)
But it still seems like a good idea ...
thnx
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Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
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