From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-05-03T14:52:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Parrot

In article <a0511170cb8f73ae4c91c@[63.120.19.221]>,
Dan Sugalski  <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>At 2:40 AM +0900 5/3/02, Berger, Daniel wrote:
>>Is anyone attending the Parrot talk at OSCON this year?  I'm really very
>>curious to see what interest there is in Parrot amongst Ruby folk.
>
>Oooh! Oooh! I am, I am! :)

Me too! Me too!

>
>FWIW, time and funds willing, I'll probably be at RubyConf 2002.
>

Cool.

>>For an interested tidbit on Parrot & Java, look here:
>>
>>http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/
>
>This trick should also be usable with other bytecode languages--.NET, 
>Rezrov, UCSD p-code, 6502 hex code... The possibilities are 
>interestingly endless.

..NET doesn't use a bytecode VM.  It uses an IR (Intermediate 
Representation) that gets compiled to native code.

Phil