On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0100, K Stol said:
> PHP is especially used in web pages. Would there be any advantage to have a
> PHP->Parrot compiler?
Depends what you mean by 'advantage'.
Currently, as far as I know, PHP runs on a virtual machine, just like
Perl so it's a good candidate for porting. It is also relatively feature
comparable whilst being easier to parse.
Doing a PHP->Parrot compiler would have these advantages :
* demonstrate your understanding of a inplementing the
compiler for a featureful language
* allow interaction between Perl6 and PHP scripts/modules
* tap into the PHP community's tuits whcih would mean Parrot'd be likely
to get stuff like the Zend optimiser and a generic mod_* backend so
that all languages implemented on top of Parrot would have a
mod_(php/perl) Apache hook automagically.
* really push Parrot with a real-world, non toy language.
> LUA seems to be a very nice language, but how is this language to be used?
> Is it in combination with a C program one would write? Or could it be used
> as a stand alone application? In that case, it seems to me it would be
> interesting to have a LUA->Parrot (with IMCC in between) compiler.
As I said, I only know it from a games context where it's used as the
basis for the scripting engine. AIUI it can be used a a standalone
language as well.
>From what I know it's specifically designed to be a portable, fast,
lightweight platform for extending platforms and providing a framework
for implementing domain specific languages.
So, basically, a perfect fit for Parrot.
In fact, if you take
http://www.lua.org/about.html
and s/Lua/Parrot/ it still makes sense :)
Simon
