I'd be willing to bet that most general purpose languages that are in mainstream use could easily share the majority of their compiler/interpreter code. The mai

I'd be willing to bet that most general purpose languages that are in mainstream use could easily share the majority of their compiler/interpreter code. The main differences are in which combination of features are included and the syntax that you use. Why put them in hardware? That sounds like an awful lot of extra silicon for every single architecture. Wouldn't it be better to have a higher level software abstraction like Parrot that you just build everything else on top of?