From: Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de>
Subject: Parrot for Ada?
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 01:02:23 +0200
Date: 2002-08-01T01:02:23+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ai9q8a$lan$04$1@news.t-online.com> (raw)
Slashdot has an article about "Parrot".
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/07/31/1225200.shtml?tid=145
Parrot is an interesting virtual machine, similar to .NET CLR and JVM. It
is planned to support Perl6 and other languages (so far Java, Python, Ruby,
Scheme). One design goal is portability among several platforms (Linux,
Cygwin, Win32, FreeBSD, Solaris, Tru64, OpenVMS). Parrot was chosen to
implement Perl6 because .NET CLR and JVM would be "not suitable".
Details: http://www.astray.com/parrot/
AFAIK JGNAT is the only Ada compiler which compiles for a virtual machine
(JVM). I don't know if there will be well supported Ada compilers in the
future on upcoming platforms (64 bit AMD etc.) so I think it would possibly
be a good thing to have one working Parrot Ada compiler which could be used
on many platforms in the future.
Are there any Ada compiler experts here who could evaluate Parrot and tell
us if it could be(come) a suitable VM for Ada?
If yes, then perhaps a simple way to get Ada onto Parrot could be to wait
for a Java bytecode to Parrot compiler to compile JGNAT to Parrot.
More informations:
http://www.parrotcode.org/
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/07/p6pdigest/20020723.html
http://astray.com/targeting_parrot/
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/
Regards,
Ingo
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2002-07-31 23:02 Ingo Marks [this message]
2002-08-01 2:45 ` Parrot for Ada? SteveD
2002-08-03 13:14 ` Mike Greaves
2002-08-05 11:44 ` Ingo Marks
2002-08-03 23:44 ` chris.danx
2002-08-04 9:20 ` Florian Weimer
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