On Jan 7, 2008 8:41 AM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Smith wrote: > > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > >> I think that the answer here is probably that Java--the language needs > >> to stop evolving and give way to a better language on the JVM. > > > > The JVM has specific problems that make this a difficult and limiting > > option. The JVM was very much defined as a language specific VM. They're > > I like the idea of a general purpose virtual machine which we compile > code for. This is how Erlang gets a lot of its robust error handling > etc. Have any of you looked at Parrot? They are intending to build a > general purpose virtual machine which you can compile perl, python, > java, etc to. > > http://www.parrotcode.org/
I've only got time for one backend for Cobra for now. Overtime I would expect additional backends, but I'm guessing someone will crank out a JVM one before a Parrot one simply due to popularity. -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
