From: Frodo Morris <graham.lee@...>
Date: 2002-11-07T02:25:30+09:00
Subject: Re: A vision for Parrot

Walter Roberson wrote:
> In article <aqa2oa$8o1$1@news.ox.ac.uk>, Frodo Morris  <""> wrote:
> :Imagine if parrot could understand all interpreted code.
> 
> I would have to think for a bit to come up with a proof, but
> it seems fairly likely to me that that would be impossible.
> 
> At the very least, for it to be possible, you would have to
> program indefinite-length pointers and allow all available disk
> space to be used as extended memory.
> 
> The problem that people keep forgetting is that Turing Equivilence
> requires indefinite memory. Turing Machines are defined as having
> infinite "tapes". Given any finite memory size, I can come up with
> an interpreter the emulation of which would not fit in that finite
> memory size.
Perdantick bast.  :-)
Imagine if parrot could understand all currently- and popularly- 
implemented interpreted languages.

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FM