RE: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:30 PM -0700 7/9/02, John Porter wrote: Garrett Goebel wrote: John Porter wrote: Not to beat on Dan (or anyone else), but for the sake of those [...] Please don't beat on Dan... ;) I'm not! Nope, he isn't. Warnings and concerns based on technical merits and past experience are

RE: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-10 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: These 'add-on' bytecode interpreters don't get any special consideration in the core. That means they *can* have: *) A custom bytecode loader to translate their bytecode format to ours, or something we can use *) As many custom PMC classes as they want *)

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-09 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: John Porter wrote: I assume (but I'm open to correction) that it is *not* to simulate the vm of other language environments, so as to execute faithfully bytecode produced in those environments. (That is, taking object code from a python compiler (e.g.) and executing

RE: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-09 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: John Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dan Sugalski wrote: John Porter wrote: I assume (but I'm open to correction) that it is *not* to simulate the vm of other language environments, so as to execute faithfully bytecode produced in those environments. (That is, taking object

RE: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-09 Thread John Porter
Garrett Goebel wrote: John Porter wrote: Not to beat on Dan (or anyone else), but for the sake of those [...] Please don't beat on Dan... ;) I'm not! Parrot isn't Perl. I.e., your Perl-vision blinders are on a tad tight. It's the first general purpose vm for dynamic languages. That

The Tcl VM (was: Re: Tasks for the interested)

2002-07-05 Thread John Porter
Dan wrote: Okay, here are some tasks for the interested. They're all related (I expect you'll see the pattern), but independent anyway. 1) Dig through the perl source and find out all the opcodes. (pp.c and friends) Document the opcodes and what they do. 2) The same as #1, only for

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-01 Thread John Porter
(I don't have the original msg in my mbox, so I'm jumping in here...) The following is from the Tcl bytecode compiler [1] FAQ: Why doesn't Tcl use the Java bytecodes? I [2] had originally hoped to use Java bytecodes because they have a mature design and because Java is widely available. I

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-26 Thread Joe McMahon
There's a draft update of the Z-machine spec to 1.1: http://www.jczorkmid.net/~jpenney/ZSpec11-draft6.txt It's not final, but it does clarify some vague stuff in the 1.0 spec. --- Joe M.

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-23 Thread Richard J Cox
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 9:33:55 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Okay, here are some tasks for the interested. They're all related (I expect you'll see the pattern), but independent anyway. [...] 5) .NET (same as #4, a link to a good reference is fine) Couldn't find any specific

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-19 Thread Joe Avis
2) The same as #1, only for Python Python Byte Code Instructions http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/bytecodes.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-18 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Dan Sugalski wrote in perl.perl6.internals : Okay, here are some tasks for the interested. They're all related (I expect you'll see the pattern), but independent anyway. 1) Dig through the perl source and find out all the opcodes. (pp.c and friends) Document the opcodes and what they do.

Fwd: Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:55:51 -0500 From: Joe Mason To: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tasks for the interested On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:33:55PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, here are some tasks for the interested. They're all related (I expect you'll see the pattern

Re: Fwd: Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-18 Thread Josh Wilmes
So now who's going to implement it? (must..contain..urge..) --Josh At 17:03 on 06/18/2002 EDT, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6) Infocom's z-machine http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/zspec/sect14.html Well, that's one...

Re: Fwd: Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:10 PM -0400 6/18/02, Josh Wilmes wrote: So now who's going to implement it? (must..contain..urge..) You think *you* have to contain the urge... :) Seriously, this is a good thing to tackle. Not only does it involve custom opcode libraries, but it also requires packfile loading with

Re: Fwd: Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-18 Thread Josh Wilmes
Oh man. Now i'm doomed. I guess i'll start playing tonight then ;-) --Josh At 17:20 on 06/18/2002 EDT, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5:10 PM -0400 6/18/02, Josh Wilmes wrote: So now who's going to implement it? (must..contain..urge..) You think *you* have to contain the