Re: Re: message from Parrot PieThon developer

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:47:51 -0700 Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> >>> 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 ...
> 
Ask about Windows support. Like Perl, Parrot appears to be oriented towards
Unix systems. Though successful win32 builds are claimed on multiple compilers
no specific procedure is provided.

Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>