From: Michael Lucas-Smith <s3225202@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T10:41:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29777] Re: Python and Ruby: a comparison

> Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be more productive
> to find some commonality on the back end.  Like
> maybe some "standardized" byte code so that
> you could code one module in Ruby, one in
> Python, one in Perl depending on what is best
> for the particular task.  Maybe the syntax of
> the various scripting languages is too diverse
> to use all the modules from any client.. I dunno'.
> I'm not a yacc user so I don't know how hard it
> would be to wrap the compiled modules to
> make them automatically acceptable.  For
> procedural compiled languages it seems
> easier.  At least TopSpeed used a common
> code generator in the PC world.  I love mixing
> and matching so I'd rather see something
> like common code generation than some
> language merging anyway.
> 

Check out Parrot
(http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html)
(http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg06916.html)

It's trying to do exactly that. A common VM underneith Python, Perl6 and 
Ruby.

Michael