# A vision for Parrot

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/a-vision-for-parrot/2733>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [7 November 2002 21:29 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/a-vision-for-parrot/2733 "2002-11-07T21:29:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 November 2002 21:29 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/a-vision-for-parrot/2733/1 "2002-11-07T21:29:30Z")

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Daniel Pfeiffer [occitan@esperanto.org](mailto:occitan@esperanto.org) wrote in message news:[20021105221004.339206f3.occitan@esperanto.org](mailto: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.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it peculiar that someone  
‘@esperanto.org’ is championing a unified approach to language?

Daniel, is this part of a scheme to bring Python, Perl, TCL, Ruby  
programmers around to your way of thinking?

😉

a

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**Author:** ![Erik\_Max\_Francis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a4c791/32.png) [@Erik\_Max\_Francis](https://rubytalk.org/u/Erik_Max_Francis)\
**Post date:** [8 November 2002 03:30 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/a-vision-for-parrot/2733/2 "2002-11-08T03:30:35Z")

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Alan Green wrote:

> Is it just me, or does anyone else think it peculiar that someone  
> ‘@esperanto.org’ is championing a unified approach to language?

Now, now :-). Esperanto is an auxiliary language, so its intend is to  
be a second language that everyone learns in addition to their primary  
tongue, rather than a replacement for it.

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