From: Piers Cawley Date: 2002-11-07T08:52:51+09:00 Subject: Re: A vision for Parrot Christopher Browne writes: > In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Daniel Pfeiffer transmitted: >> this morning it struck me that it would be nice to have Parrot not >> only run Perl 6 and similar byte code, but that any of the common >> interpreted languages be compiled to this same byte code. > > I'd think it quite plausible that if someone took the project on, > there could readily be a pretty functional Python compiler for > Parrot /before/ a Perl 6 one would be likely to emerge... One would hope so, given that the Perl 6 spec is quite some way away. Someone's already working on a 'mini' scheme for instance. -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?