In article 20021105221004.339206f3.occitan@esperanto.org,
Hi,
this morning it struck me that it would be nice to have Parrot not only
run Perl 6 and similar byte code, but that any of the common interpreted
languages be compiled to this same byte code.Then no matter whether running a Perl 6, Python, Ruby, Tcl maybe even
bash script the same interpreter library would be used. Then likely it
would already be in memory speeding up start time.And this would also ease cross language module/library inclusion.
Imagine instantiating some Python class from Perl!Apache would essentially have a mod_parrot. Maybe, if this can be
tested very hard, we’d even have a Parrot kernel module for all Unices
supporting that. Then exec() could perform compiled scripts right away,
like machine code
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This thought inspired enthusiasm in others long ago–from
before it was named “Parrot”, at least.
Availability of all the pieces your vision requires is at
least several years away, barring miracles. I don’t par-
ticularly expect it to happen.
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