[kw-pm] Hrm.

[Daniel R. Allen]

The only thing I'd add to Arguile's good summary- Parrot was written to
execute bytecode for Perl 6.  It is expected to become the core of the
perl 6 interpreter.  As quickly as the Perl 6 language definitions get
hashed out, the parrot crew goes in and implements it in parrot.
Maniacs.  :-) Though, Parrot is not perl6; it is a standalone virtual
machine that can execute bytecode-compiled languages like perl6 will be,
and like Python is currently.  No, that distinction isn't 100% clear to me
either.

-Daniel

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On 23 Jan 2003, Arguile wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 04:52, lloyd carr wrote:
> > Well apparently it started as an April fools joke, note the date of the
> > article I linked you to, that went on to become true!?! How strange is
> > that? Perhaps one of the real Perl mavins, hello Daniel, can enlighten us.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Yes, it did start as an April fools joke (mainly from the Perl camp). At
> the time it was thought of as ludicrous the Perl and Python camps could
> agree on anything, so it seemed an amusing idea. They asked O'Reilly if
> they could use their name/animal trademark to give the joke weight;
> O'Reilly aquised and even provided an artist to do the lithograph cover.
> It was then realised that the only way it would be even close to
> believable is if they had colusion in the upper echelons of the Python
> camp. Hence came about an absudly work intensive joke, and one of the
> best working relations between the two camps.
> 
> I hope I got that all correct, I remeber being as shocked as the next
> person when it was originally announced (the joke one). You can probably
> find some funny comments if you search the /. archive.
> 
> ## Brief synopsis -- not detailed enough to be wholely correct
> 
> Anyways, what seemed like a ludicrous idea at the time did in fact start
> making more sense as they talked it over. 
> 
> Parrot is basically just a virtual machine. Just as Java is compiled
> down to bytecode to run on it's JVM, or .Net languages like C# are
> compiled into IBL (I think that's the acronym), or even Pascal had
> pCode, things like Perl and Python will be compiled down to Parrot. 
> 
> As it currently stands, when you run a Perl script the perl interpretter
> first compiles it down to an internal bytecode representation, unlike
> Java's bytecode however this representation is not portable across
> machines. 
> 
> Parrot should allow multiple languages all to be compiled down to the
> same VM and be cross platform in the way Java bytecode is. You can even
> program in Parrot "assembly" if you wish. When the first beta came out I
> had a bit of fun with this, if you have a bit of time the hacking is
> definitely worth it :)
> 
> 
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