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Re: Parott
From: |
Bill Gribble |
Subject: |
Re: Parott |
Date: |
09 Nov 2002 09:49:53 -0600 |
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 23:26, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
> I didn't finish my message, oops. Anyway, Parrot also has a working JIT
> compiler among other things. Support for continuations is being worked on.
> There is also a GC built in and big/exact number support too. It just seems
> like a good idea to use Parrot.
That sounds like a pretty good idea to me; it would be nice to get some
synergy from the Perl folks, and it seems like with a common bytecode
backend there could be some very nice interoperation potentials (i.e.
guile having a perl evaluator or some craziness like that). Maybe this
is more of a practical direction to achieve the Guile dream of multiple
extension language syntaxes, too (not sure exactly how or if it relates,
but it seems like a possibility).
b.g.