State of Parrot -- was: Re: State of Python

[A.M. Kuchling]

On 16 May 2003 10:20:01 -0400, 
	andrew cooke <andrew at acooke.org> wrote:
> while the same also applies to jvm and clr (and the squeak vm, and
> others), it seems that parrot is going to be more interesting
> (supporting a wider range of paradigms more easily).

Lots of languages have been implemented on the JVM at this point.  It's not
obvious to me whether that's happening on the CLR (is there a list?); I
can't find many that aren't funded by Microsoft, and none seems to be used
very much.  

For Parrot, it's too early to tell if it'll prove fertile ground; the idea
is good, but the implementation isn't ready yet and is being developed
really slowly.  The critical point will come when it's actually possible to
run a real language on Parrot; that may be the catalyst for increased
interest from language implementors.  (It certainly will be for me; at that
point I'll likely dust off the Python-to-Parrot translator and try to make
it work again.)

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