At 12:02 PM -0800 3/23/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After a rather bad start with the idea of parrot (I missed the whole joke
>of Perl and python) I found this list and have been lurking. Other than
>listening to real programmers talk - and enjoying it - I'm wondering if
>parrot is (or will) be what I understand and want it to be.
The list name is a hint. No, really, it is. :)
>My take is it could be a replacement or supplemental VM to the Java VM for
>those that would prefer coding in other languages. Could it be embedded
>(?) in browsers as a supplement or replacement to Javascript?
Parrot doesn't have anything to do with Java as such, besides being a
VM. (They both owe rather a lot to UCSD Pascal and Zork, thinking
about it)
Parrot's the interpreter for perl 6. One of the nice things about
perl is that it's a superset of many other languages, which means
that the interpreter should be fit for those other languages,
including Ruby and Python for example.
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Dan
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