From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-08-01T03:55:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18909] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend


"Pat Eyler" <pate@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:yHx97.10891$WD1.467794@e420r-atl2.usenetserver.com...
> While there was some talk here recently about running Ruby on the Perl
> backend, ESR has recently made a loud comment about bringing the Perl and
> Python communities closer together and making Parrot a reality ... within

There are many similarities to this and the .Net experience.

Related: The babel01 conference in septemper is listed on the following page

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/

ilx is an extended version of MS Intermediate Language the .Net equivalent
of java bytecode. The extensions were created to support feedback from
language researchers working on getting Haskell, Mercury and other languages
to run on the same runtime. It was originally codenamed project 7.
ActiveState is involved in the Perl/Python port.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/NET/index

Here is list of languages (in english) that on some experimental level is
ported to .Net

http://www.dotnet-fr.org/links.php3?op=viewslink&sid=15

I would be nice if all languages used the same bytecode language. It would
also be nice with a runtime that was not governed by Microsoft - i.e. a
parallel implementation like the parrot project. But I can see many benefits
in leveraging the amount of work MS has put into designing a platform where
languages can communicate. IMO it would be stupid to invent a third bytecode
language unless there are some serious benefits in doing so.

Mikkel