Re: message from Parrot PieThon developer

>>> Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>>> Anyway. You might have a look at Parrot, which could take some
>>>> burden of the job "implementing a new interpreter". Parrot
>>>> provides (or will soon provide) all the boring low-level stuff,
>>>> like GC, Unicode strings, threads, events, async IO, JIT run core,
>>>> real classes, and a lot more.

Mark Hahn wrote:
> What is the status of the library? That would make a giant difference
> as Prothon has no library so far.

Same as Prothon - currently[1] ;) *But* with the first of [perl5, perl6,
python, ... ] running, things will change rapidly. You know CPAN has
some useful code. Each interpreter's currently implementing the same
things, over and over. That's a huge waste of creative man power, albeit
sometimes instructive.
Parrot is very special - an interpreter with no language running above
it - or almost none, yet. But that's one desing goal -keep language
features out of it, make it a generally useful interpreter for *all* :)
leo
[1] there is runtime/parrot/library and ./include with some useful
stuff, i.e. bindings for ncurses and SDL or PCRE, but not too much yet.
People are working on database interfaces ...