Howdy Justin,
> I hope this isn't splitting hairs too finely, but what it says is that the > Neko _compiler_ is written in Neko (actually NekoML, I believe). The VM is > certainly written in C. > > -Justin Thanks for the clarification. That was definitely me getting the Neko compiler and Neko VM conflated, and I apologize. Parrot does not have a single "Parrot compiler" but a compiler interface (HLL::Compiler), so it is a bit hard to compare. I would say that the Parrot VM is written in C-with-sugar while the Parrot compiler interface uses NQP. More info can be found here: http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/latest/html/docs/pdds/draft/pdd31_hll.pod.html One should also note that Parrot does not force any of our subsystems on anybody. For instance, the Winxed language is built on Parrot but has a self-hosting compiler written in C++. Duke -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto [email protected] http://leto.net -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
