Parrot and GCC (Was: Re: Perl, Python and noo perl SEC: UNCLASSIFIED)
Matthew Hawkins
matt at mh.dropbear.id.au
Fri Apr 5 22:44:38 EST 2002
On Fri, 05 Apr 2002, Jeremy wrote:
> I take it you mean why isn't it a front-end to the gcc compiler?
Bingo!
> Some of the tricks that perl does can only be done with some kind of
> virtual machine backend.
Just to prove my cluelessness about this, so how does gcj work then?
Surely Java requires a virtual machine also? Hence, something similar
could be done for Parrot if it was truly necessary.
> The other reason is that the parrot team want to be able to have
> frontends for Python, Java and C#.
GCC has the goal of supporting multiple languages also. So why not join
forces and create the one development suite that can deal with anyone's
language of choice?
> There is an archive of relevent discussions at perl.org where the
> design team defend things like their choice of VM, etc.
I think that's more to do with the choice of moving to Parrot in perl6
over not doing it at all, and plugging along with the current system.
I had a good read over there not that long ago as I find the whole
history of parrot quite amusing. Some people just can't take a joke,
others pick it up and carry it to the extreme ;)
--
Matt
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