Christopher Browne cbbrowne@acm.org writes:
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Daniel Pfeiffer occitan@esperanto.org transmitted:
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.I’d think it quite plausible that if someone took the project on,
there could readily be a pretty functional Python compiler for
Parrot /before/ a Perl 6 one would be likely to emerge…
One would hope so, given that the Perl 6 spec is quite some way
away. Someone’s already working on a ‘mini’ scheme for instance.
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–
Piers
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.”
– Jane Austen?