-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone looked at or played with parrot?
http://www.parrotcode.org/ It is intended to be a free universal virtual machine. So far all of the existing virtual machines tend to run only the language they were designed for. Parrot is a general purpose virtual machine which any language (Java, Perl, Python, Lisp, Javascript, etc) can all be targeted for. I listened to a podcast last night which mentioned some efforts to get the Parrot virtual machine included in the FireFox web browser which would go a long way towards finally integrating the functionality of Java and Javascript into a more general platform which we can target with our favorite programming languages in a standard way. It seems that what C is to code portability (the big reason why Unix runs on so many different platforms) Parrot wants to be to bytecode portability. Parrot itself is written in C to enable it to run on as many platforms as possible so that our bytecodes from our preferred languages can run on as many platforms as possible. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFFXEw9PIYKZYVAq0RAvd1AKCbAwqqaAjsmjR/xsJzGP2satY53wCgl2Yj 8y7AsQF6ErDkoDToFaqLV5E= =mhzI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
