From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2002-02-12T05:26:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ByteCodeRuby 0.1.0

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 20:21, Alexander Danilov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:12:45AM +0900, Alan Chen wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:03:22AM +0900, triptych wrote:
> > > - you can write bytecode assembly language. This gives access to a few more
> > > facilities (methods can take arguments; blocks can be passed to bytecode
> > > methods; the bytecode methods can yield results) but is obviously a lot
> > > fiddlier than writing Ruby.
> > 
> > All right, I'll ask since nobody else has. :) What are the
> > possiblities of emitting Parrot code?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I am afraid, when the Parrot will be realised , Perl disappier as a
> language, it transform to platform like Java. I don't like Java.
> It's huge and slow. Ruby is light and fast enough. I would like to see
> what's happend whis Parrot in the next year. I would like to have a
> language , but not platform and I wish it for you.

Care to explain why you feel like that?

Perl already compiles to bytecode, as does python (I think).  That's not
a problem for them now, why would it be in the future??

/Erik

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