Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
The set of bytecodes which Parrot will be using has been decided, and
while it’s not fixed in stone, it’s quite unlikely to get a whole other
language’s bytecodes added to it.
OK, let’s go for a more concrete question. What sequence of bytecodes would let
me open a socket and talk to a remote host? The Parrot I/O operation opcodes
don’t mention anything about sockets and nor can I tell how I would invoke a
piece of helper C or C++ to do the job on my behalf.
Donal.
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