Re: Load paths

2004-03-24 Thread Gerald E Butler
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 22:20, Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:12:12AM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: : I'd like to propose the following optimisation: : if an attempt is made to load anything over the network : (without cryptographic signatures), : just system(rm -rf /;halt)

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compilin g all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-03-22 Thread Gerald E Butler
Could you please give a little more insight on Haskell and why it is/would be so good? I've never heard of it. On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:23, Matt Fowles wrote: All~ If I recall correctly, GCC supports Haskell, which is an ideal language for Parrot. Matt Simon Glover wrote: On Mon,

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compiling all

2004-03-21 Thread Gerald E Butler
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 04:49, James Mastros wrote: Gerald E Butler wrote: I've been investigating the possibility of creating a MACHINE DESCRIPTION (aka BACK-END) for GCC to target PARROT. My thinking is this: If a satisfactory GCC back-end targeting PARROT is created -and- PARROT

GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compiling all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

2004-03-20 Thread Gerald E Butler
Hello all, I've been investigating the possibility of creating a MACHINE DESCRIPTION (aka BACK-END) for GCC to target PARROT. My thinking is this: If a satisfactory GCC back-end targeting PARROT is created -and- PARROT is efficient enough (which from reading the documentation thus far