On 9/23/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Has anyone looked at or played with parrot?
http://www.parrotcode.org/
No, but I'm a fan of Novell Mono which is also multi-platform and
multi-language. Novell has 16 full time developers on it, plus
hundreds of external developers submitting contribs (it's open
source). http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
There's a company here in SoCal called Second Life that is porting
their customization language from their proprietary VM to Mono so that
their users can customize their environment with any language. They
also get a huge performance boost (Mono compiles down to machine
code). I saw a presentation on this which is now on the web:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/1/94138e2a-d9dc-435a-9240-bcd985bf5bd7/Jim-Cory-SecondLife.wmv
And another presentation from Miguel de Icaza from Novell about Mono in general:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/1/94138e2a-d9dc-435a-9240-bcd985bf5bd7/MiguelDeIcaza-MONO.wmv
If you're wondering why an open source presentation is hosted on a
Microsoft site, it's because we were all at this symposium:
http://www.langnetsymposium.com/speakers.asp
Where about 15% of the audience were sporting MacBooks. :-)
Oh and I might as well throw in the Python presentation too:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/4/1/94138e2a-d9dc-435a-9240-bcd985bf5bd7/Jim-IronPython.wmv
As you can see I'm pretty pumped about all this. .NET was designed to
be multi-language and continued the effort by hiring Jim Hugunin to
port Python and help them find ways to improve .NET even further,
especially for dynamic languages. Novell supplies an open source clone
and there are plenty of third party libs.
-Chuck
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