At 20:07 on 05/23/2007 PDT, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:37:06PM -0400, Josh Wilmes wrote: > > > At 19:05 on 05/23/2007 PDT, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - better compiler tools than lex and yacc. > > > Is it necessary (or even fair) to tie compiler components to parrot? > > I really don't know how to answer this question. > > The compiler tools target Parrot, so that it will be easier for people > (including us) to write languages that run on Parrot.
I understand. I'm just saying that *if* perl 6 were being written to target an existing VM, any brilliant compiler tools could be written to target it as well. It's not parrot that makes these possible. --Josh
