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I have been more interested in Parrot VM rather than Perl 6 itself. I like the idea of a unified VM, though it looks unlikely to take off. The ability to share
by seiferteric 12y ago
I have been more interested in Parrot VM rather than Perl 6 itself. I like the idea of a unified VM, though it looks unlikely to take off. The ability to share code/libraries between languages would be awesome.
- jgalt212 12y agodo you mean just like the CLR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime
- pmontra 12y agoOr the JVM. Many languages compile to it, even some with their own interpreters (one example: Ruby). Or the Erlang VM (Beam). There is at least Elixir that compiles to its bytecode.
- pjmlp 12y agoBesides the JVM and CLR pointed in sibling threads. What about P-Code (1978), M-Code(1978), OS/400 TIMI (1988), or the granddaddy UNCOL (1958)? Parrot was hardly a new idea.