On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, luigi scarso <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Haltiwanger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would that make it feasible to somehow chain Parrot's Lua > > to LuaTeX? > parrot ~ luajit > cfr. http://luajit.org/ > Maybe some day luatex will be jitluatex > but I don't see here a priority --- luajit is x86 specific for example. > > My point of view is not so new COM .NET , "plug-in" all share the > same concept of dynamic loading > --- but the don't know the concept of typographical programming. > > Parrot also knows dynamic loading, so that probably makes much more sense than some ad-hoc tethering of the two interpreters. If I understand the design of Parrot properly, then as soon as one language has defined an interface to LuaTeX, that interface will be usable in other languages on the VM.
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