Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Jeff Hobbs
> I don't think we should even think about putting Parrot into AOLserver as > the primary multi-language support mechanism until it's actually stable > and being used (beta-level at the minimum). I'm reminded of the colleague > who suggested (in early 2001) that I use C# or Mozilla/XUL for my > bi

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 01:08 PM, Titus Brown wrote: Now that would be nice... ;) Smalltalk and Objective C both seem to be interesting languages that are much neglected these days. The Squeak project (http://www.squeak.org/) seems fairly active, and ObjC got new focus because it'

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Dossy
On 2002.11.13, Peter M. Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Dossy wrote: > > >I'm glad the open source community's getting to reinvent the Sun/Java > >wheel, but ... > > Which is a reinvention of the Smalltalk wheel. I might agree with you if a whole

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Peter M. Jansson
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Dossy wrote: I'm glad the open source community's getting to reinvent the Sun/Java wheel, but ... Which is a reinvention of the Smalltalk wheel.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-13 Thread Dossy
On 2002.11.12, Talli Somekh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Parrot is in the early phases of its implementation. The primary way > to use Parrot is to write Parrot assembly code, described in PDD6. I could easily see implementing a Tcl interpreter written in Parrot assembly ... Tcl's language spec.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-12 Thread Michael A. Cleverly
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Talli Somekh wrote: > Anyway, I hope this helps. Perhaps a potentially new way for thinking > about the problem? This idea is currently being discussed on comp.lang.tcl (& cross-posted to other comp.lang groups). http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a0c66514e743b9c6 Micha

[AOLSERVER] Parrot for multi-lang support?

2002-11-12 Thread Talli Somekh
Hey everyone, This suggestion is quite blue sky, but I thought that one potential future solution for providing multiple language support would be by implementing a "nsparrot". (warning, many quotations from various sites ahead, with links) Parrot is (from http://www.parrotcode.org): "Parrot is