Why use PARROT as the basis for Open Source Platforms (GNOME etc) ?

I've created the following WIKI (http://www.vendian.org/parrot/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/WhyUseParrot) in response to Havoc Pennington's recent Opinion Article on Footnotes which advocates JAVA/JVM as the future of the Open Source Desktop. Please, feel free to check this out and

Re: Why use PARROT as the basis for Open Source Platforms (GNOME etc) ?

At 12:59 PM -0500 3/23/04, Butler, Gerald wrote: I've created the following WIKI (http://www.vendian.org/parrot/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/WhyUseParrot) in response to Havoc Pennington's recent Opinion Article on Footnotes which advocates JAVA/JVM as the future of the Open Source Desktop.