kevin falcone gave a short mod_parrot talk at YAPC this year. does he want to lay some claim to it? i'd be willing to pick it up if nobody else speaks up -- a decision i'm sure to regret... ;-)
I caught up with Kevin on irc (#parrot on irc.perl.org, for anyone who cares :) and he lacks the tuits to do anything with it.
on a related note, last year i wrote extproc_parrot, which lets you call parrot bytecode as an oracle stored procedure. this was a proof of concept to show that to show that extproc_perl (stored procedures in perl) would be able to support perl 6 when it became available. it worked, but the embedding interface was too immature to do much else than a simple "Hello world" example.
based on what you're saying here, i plan on picking this up again. i imagine the work will be quite similar to mod_parrot.
Yep, I expect there will be a massive amount of overlap. This could be interesting... :)
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> madness and potential fame, I could see it going either way) await.Okay, here's the scoop. Ages ago, Clever People whipped up mod_parrot, an apache module that embedded parrot. This was really cool.
Alas, Parrot wasn't up to snuff at the time, and the project languished. This wasn't cool, but neither was it unsurprising.
I think we're at the point where mod_parrot is feasible, so I'd like to find someone willing to pick up the project and get it going again. This should let us exercise the embedding interface with something a bit less stressful than ponie, and we'll get a chance to work out the API for setting up IO streams, which'll be nice.
This is a bit of a big'un, but when it works it'll be the basis for the parrot version of mod_[perl|python|ruby|tcl|Intercal|Forth] so if you've got a bit of time, well... fame and potential madness (or
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