Hi there, As a recent parroter, what striked me most while reading perl6-internals, is that it's very perl-centric. Ok, I agree that: * only Perl (and Larry) has planned its roadmap to include Parrot as its final virtual machine. * the name "perl6-internals" is really too restrictive (but this point has already been discussed last week). * there's always some, erhm, rivalry between Perl and, say, Python or Ruby or (insert-your-second-eheh-favorite-language-here).
But the ultimate goal of Parrot is World Domination^W^Wto be THE virtual machine, the one that every language should target, and the one that could spit whatever we want, either execution, or parrot precompiled/preoptimized bytecode, or corresponding C source, or native executable, or whatever. So, I think parrot could definitely benefit from a wider audience, and I'm sure: * development would be faster. Some of (insert-a-language-name-here) guys are really good and could help parrot tremendously. * development would be better. Remember the cathedral and the bazaar: the more people are looking at your code, the more bugs you can catch. * development would be more open. Maybe (I'm not a Parrot wizard) some things in Parrot are designed in a perl-centric way. This may be bad, since it would be more difficult to address new languages, and maybe being too perl-centric will lead to a bad design (once again, I'm not sure this is the case, I still have a lot of Parrot studying to do ;) ). I know it's easy to say this, but what could _we_ do in order to open parrot to non-perl centric people? Btw, I found this url while idling on the web: http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/nondist/sandbox/parrot/parrot-gen.py This seems to be a beginning python->parrot compiler. I don't know wether you already know of this project, or wether it's still a work in progress. But it may be worth it to ask them if they want to "join the fun", and if they would like to participate with the design of parrot, instead of following and waiting for new releases of Parrot... Just my 2 cents, Jerome -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
