At 05:42 PM 9/12/2001 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
>Uri Guttman can see a day where:
> > python and ruby, etc. are
> > defaulting to using the parrot back end as it will be faster, and
> > compatible with perl etc. imagine the work reduction if all/most of the
> > interpreted languages can share one common back end.
>
>What about the compiled ones? Did we consider and reject GCC back end
>for reasons beyond "not-devloped-here?"
We haven't rejected GCC--I'd actually be really thrilled if someone wanted
to tie us into their code generator. (It's been on the long-term todo list
since the middle of the middle of the first perl 6 organizational meeting)
Dan
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