Re: Plans for 2.8 - GNOME Managed Language Services?

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

That misconception I think comes from the boastings by the Parrot folks
that they would be able to run python better than python could.  Parrot
and Perl 6, if they're ever finished, are going to be quite cool though.
Don't dismiss Perl 6 as a possibility for a solid "easy" platform on
which to build free software.

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 14:32 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:

> On 27/03/04 08:48, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> 
> >>>2. Parrot VM+Object system - possibly not fast enough for statically
> >>>type languages
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Unfinished and kind of a research project.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It will be the VM for Perl and Python, so I fail to see why it would
> >remain unfinished.
> >  
> >
> I don't think there are any plans to move Python over to the Parrot VM.  
> It is primarily being developed as the Perl 6 runtime.
> 
> James.
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