On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:41:56 +0100, Lyle wrote:
> Wikipedia states Parrots language list as:- APL, BASIC, Befunge,
> Cola, ECMAScript, Forth, Jako, Lisp, Lua, m4, Miniperl,
> OpenComal, PHP (Pipp), Plot, Pheme, Punie, Python, Ruby
> (Cardinal), Scheme, Smalltalk (Chitchat), Squaak[9], Tcl (aka
> partcl), URM, YAL, and Z-code.
m4 seems like an odd inclusion. It's not actually a programming
language, is it?
> Although most are incomplete. I got the feeling that if Parrot takes
> off, being able to just get the old code onto parrot, then access
> the datastructures directly from other languages such as Perl 6
> would be a lot easier than writing an API...
Sounds like a maintenance nightmare. Encapsulating APIs are a much
better longterm solution than direct access to the data. That said,
Parrot should allow such APIs to be made visible to any of the hosted
languages, so it's still a good thing.
--
Peter Haworth [email protected]
"There are 200+ functions in the JNI API ... I do understand that mapping a
type-unsafe language to a type-safe O-O language is hard but the resulting API
is simply disgusting, and even Sun admits this, slow as a drunken limping pig."
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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