A vision for Parrot

[Andrew Dalke]

Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:
 > 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.

As others have written, still others have tried, including Andrew
Kuchling for Python.  Two of his comments discribing the problems in
doing so are

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrna74vlu.kkq.akuchlin%40dust.mems-exchange.org&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=E17mdDp-0003xw-00%40ute.mems-exchange.org&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

					Andrew
					dalke at dalkscientific.com