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Re: [DotGNU]Just of of curiosity --
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James Michael DuPont |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]Just of of curiosity -- |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:41:37 -0800 (PST) |
The parrot project is to create a virtual machine for
perl and python.
Interesting about the parrot virtual machine is that
it is register based and not stack based.
http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html
mike
--- Rhys Weatherley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bill Lance wrote:
>
> > Would a front end to Pnet for PERL ever be a
> > possibility?
>
> One could write a Perl system that runs on top of
> the
> CLI that dynamically translates Perl into IL for
> execution.
> This is how MS does JavaScript.Net, for example.
> There's
> no need to extend the runtime engine or compiler for
> scripting languages: it's straight IL.
>
> We do need to implement "System.Reflection.Emit" to
> support scripting languages, but that's on the list
> anyway.
>
> There's rumours of such things, but you'd have to
> talk
> to the Perl community. They'd be the best ones to
> take
> this on. There have been similar rumours in the
> Python
> community. I don't keep up with Perl/Python, so it
> may have already been done or is in progress.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rhys.
>
>
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