Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-05 Thread Andrew Kuchling
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:27:42PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote: >This is no surprise. Parrot documentation will be lacking until >things settle down. Actually it's not so much the documentation. I didn't complain about 0.0.7 and 0.0.8 requiring changes to parrot-gen.py, because that's simply to be

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Andrew Kuchling
[Please CC: me on any responses.] I follow the perl6-internals list through checking the archive, and noticed Jerome's posting. I wrote the parrot-gen.py script that he pointed to. Here are my comments on this issue. (Note that I do not speak for the python-dev gang as a whole, but AFAIK I'm

Distributing future Parrot-based languages?

2001-12-14 Thread Andrew Kuchling
I'd like to resume working on the Python->Parrot translator, and am wondering where to put the PMCs I'll have to write. I'm reluctant to add them to classes/, because that's not going to scale. So, how are future Parrot-based languages going to be distributed? A fairly simple way might be to