A vision for Parrot

Christopher Browne cbbrowne at acm.org
Tue Nov 5 00:16:11 EST 2002


In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan at esperanto.org> 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...
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