From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-02-04T23:45:38+09:00
Subject: Re: lack of reaction to latest ruby implementations

mark ha scritto:

>> i thought
>> there were a few working on it? maybe i was
>> mistaken, seems like a shame. how fast are
>> the python / perl6 implementations written
>> on top of parrot now?
>>
> AFAIK the perl6 implementation is still in the early stages. They have a 
> working parser engine and are working on the perl 6 grammar.
> 
> I don't know how far along the the python implementation has gotten.

the python frontend has had quite a lot of work lately, mostly since Sam 
Ruby started hard hacking it, IIRC. Btw Ruby writing a python frontend 
for a perl VM sounds too much funny :)

It even caused quite a bit of discussion related to language interop and 
parrot support for python's features.