An entertaining read so far!
cheers :m) ps: I'll be back with more after reading the next section. _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
as "only" a perl hacker and not a compiler designer ;-), I read "intro"
of the online documentation.
I understood that there is a virtual machine (like jvm, more efficient,
hopefully) targeted towards running platform independent (perl) code. I
learnt that it should make possible to mix languages and making easy
(?!) to write compilers.
I didn't fully get the meaning of the different forms of code it
interprets..
There is a garbage collector, so that programms running on parrot
interpreting scripts do not need to implement this feature themselves.
Then I got some .pir to read, which I found easy and fun, my only
problem is with the .loop in the 4. example: How does one know where it
ends?
My BASIC instincts got back to life when I was told that 'goto' is
perfectly o.k. in pir. Well, uhm..
What I didn't understand was why I should want to compile to pbc and see
this in a file.
