Re: Re: message from Parrot PieThon developer

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> 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]>