I wanted to know, if any other scripting langue is plans to use parrot.
Your plan of Parrot - as I have understood it - is to have not only a VM for Perl. You want to have a VM for diffeent languages, like the JavaVM (with the languages Nice and Groovy) and .net, but written esecialy for scripting-languages.
But I see two problems:
1. the license
Perl is licensed under the GPL and Artistic license. Python is licensed under the Python-license and Ruby is licensed under the GPL and its own license.
So, it would be nice, if Parrot would be licensed under the GPL, Artistic license, Python-license and Rubys own license.
I don't think, that Python would be public its package with something included, which is under an other license then the Python-license.
2. Parrot is written by Perl-people for Perl
I think it would be better, if there existing a group of 2 Perl people, 2 Python people and 2 Ruby people or so, which disigned _together_ a VM for scripting languages and then support all this VM.
At the moment only the Perl people have created it. And it is possible, that Python and Ruby don't using it, because they can not identify themself with it.
So it would be a thought, to rewrite Parrot together with the other scripting people and then (and can be possible that the new Parrot-VM is incompatible to the existing one now) using it all together.
I have red, that you create yourself a Python for Parrot. But that wille be not more supported by the Python-people like IronPython or Jython I think. It would be better to working with the Python and Ruby people together. And letting Parrot independent of any language.
But it can also be possible, that I am wrong.
Do you know, if people of the other scripting languages working on Parrot, too?
And do you know, if any Python or Ruby will be in the future running on Parrot?
Greatings theuserbl
