Parrot for Python

[John Roth]

"Sridhar R" <sridharinfinity at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:930ba99a.0404030251.c2d2107 at posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I come across the Parrot project.  Seems like it is a better
> compromising alternative for .NET and Java.  That is, we can develop
> applications in Python (for productivity) and still can interact with
> components written in other languages, as they were compiled to the
> parrot byte code.
>
> But my concern is, how will Python interoperate with Parrot.  Since,
> Python has strong interospection, won't it be difficult to generate
> parrot code from python source file.

I believe there were some people working on a Python
port to Parrot a while ago, but they lost interest when
the then current Parrot implementation was insufficient
to handle what they wanted to do.

It's all a volunteer effort; it'll get done if enough
people want to get together to get it done.

John Roth