Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Bunce 
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote:
> 
>Java on Parrot
> Tim Bunce asked some preliminary questions about Java on Parrot. I
> provide preliminary answers, and Nattfodd and Autrijus posted links to
> related work. The important question of what it should be called
> remained unraised. I vote for "Jot".
> 

For the record, my interest isn't so much "Java ON Parrot" as "Java WITH 
Parrot".
Bidirectional interface between the Parrot VM and a linked-in Java VM.

Tim.

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch 


On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:43, Matt Fowles wrote:



Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22



   Java on Parrot



I vote for "Jot".


That's already occupied by another language  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot.



  Perl 6 Language
   Type Inferencing in Perl 5
Autrijus (while discussing type inference in Perl 6) recalled that  
there
was a google summer of code project on Type Inferencing in Perl 5.  
Gary
Jackson, the summer coder, provide a more detailed description of  
his

work.


http://search.cpan.org/~bargle/Devel-TypeCheck-0.01/lib/Devel/ 
TypeCheck.pm


Thanks for the summary,
leo