Parrot is in active development. It is the VM for the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6 which is in very active development.
As someone who will speak at at least 3 major Perl conferences this year (and skip over a dozen more) I can say without hesitation that Python is not replacing Perl. In fact, at the OSDC conference last November in Melbourne, there was very lacking Python representation, which I found disappointing. WSGI was a good idea. Thanks for that. All Perl web dev these days is PSGI (the Perl adaptation of WSGI). All the major Perl web frameworks are PSGI compatible and there countless server options. Recently, I tried to do some web dev in Python, but found the lack of good WSGI docs, compared to PSGI. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction. (note: assume that I want to _write_ a web app framework, not just use one) Maybe it's from my days of working at ActiveState that I naturally think of Perl and Python as peers. We should have a SeaPIG/SPUG/Seattle.rb meetup sometime. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> wrote: > oh right .. the perl vm .. I wonder what the status of perl is these days - > I thought python had replaced it already :) > > nimret > > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:30 AM, James Cooper <[email protected]>wrote: > >> And of course there's Parrot: >> >> http://www.parrot.org/ >> >> Which is a VM that can host a variety of languages including a Python 3 >> impl: >> >> https://bitbucket.org/allison/pynie >> >> not sure its status though >> >> -- James >> >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> VMs have been around for decades >>> >>> also check out http://www.xmlvm.org/overview/ >>> >>> python itself has various VMs for it ( google it) >>> >>> VMs work great btw =) >>> >>> >>> <http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ironpython+ded#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=ironpython+dead&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=783454df8801b682&biw=938&bih=690> >>> cheers, >>> nimret >>> http://www.nimret.org >>> <http://www.nimret.org> >>> >>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Christopher Barker < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 5/25/11 8:16 AM, Nimret Sandhu wrote: >>>> >>>>> uhhh .. jython's ( http://www.jython.org) has been around for years >>>>> and >>>>> is very much usable. >>>>> >>>> >>>> There's also IronPython -- and I'm pretty sure there's an IronRuby as >>>> well. >>>> >>>> That's theoretically one the key points of the "Common Language Runtime" >>>> -- multiple languages, one VM -- and they call all call each other. I don't >>>> know how well it works, and I'm not fan of anything proprietary*, but it's >>>> a >>>> pretty cool idea. >>>> >>>> -Chris >>>> >>>> * There is Mono, of course.... >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Christopher Barker, Ph.D. >>>> Oceanographer >>>> >>>> Emergency Response Division >>>> NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice >>>> 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax >>>> Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception >>>> >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nimret Sandhu >>> http://www.nimret.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> James Cooper >> Principal Consultant - Bitmechanic LLC >> http://www.bitmechanic.com/ >> > > > > -- > Nimret Sandhu > http://www.nimret.org >
