A vision for Parrot

[holger krekel]

Darren New wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
> > Funnily enough they kept telling me that as soon as I switched to
> > F99/C++ etc etc that everything would be portable.
> 
> Your confusion is in thinking that "portable" is a binary value. Fortran
> was certainly more portable than assembler, as was C. Tcl is certainly
> more portable than Fortran or C. 
> 
> The other problem, of course, is that people keep improving their
> capabilities, so what was portable is no longer adequate. Fortran is
> quite portable, as long as you don't want to do 3D graphics driven by a
> data glove.
> 
> As long as you don't want to do development in multiple languages or
> dynamically load code safely over the net into some other OS process,
> Tcl and Python are pretty good choices. Otherwise, you might want to
> consider C# or Java. 

you can "dynamically load code safely over the net into some other OS process"
with python, too.  Where do you see the problem?  

with the other point (developing in multiple languages) i fully agree.
Although C/C++ and Java seem to be pretty well integratable with python.

I wonder if it would be possible to modify/extend the python-VM to allow for
"efficient" execution of C#.  We would be set, then, wouldn't we? 

regards,

    holger