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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