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

2004-03-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
t work, but its not in a state that I'd recommend general usage. 2) Parrot isn't an acronym, and as such should be capitalized Parrot. (Unless you're on a teletype or using RAD-50) If you want to use PARROT the proper usage is: PARROT* * which stands for nothing 3) I ca

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

2004-03-23 Thread Butler, Gerald
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 respo

Re: use parrot;

2001-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:41 PM 10/21/2001 -0400, Rocco Caputo wrote: >On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:20:29PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > I suppose. I hadn't planned on inlining parrot assembly into any other > > language. (The first person who suggests an asm() function *will* get > > smacked... :) You'll certai

Re: use parrot;

2001-10-21 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:20:29PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I suppose. I hadn't planned on inlining parrot assembly into any other > language. (The first person who suggests an asm() function *will* get > smacked... :) You'll certainly be able to use modules written purely in > parrot a

Re: use parrot;

2001-10-21 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 08:11 PM 10/20/2001 +0200, raptor wrote: >hi, > >will it be possible to do this inside Perl program : > > >use parrot; >...parrot code... >no parrot; >OR > >sub mysub is parrot { > parrot code ... >} I suppose. I hadn't planned on inlining pa

Re: use parrot;

2001-10-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:11:27PM +0200, raptor wrote: > will it be possible to do this inside Perl program : > > use parrot; > ...parrot code... > no parrot; Bad idea of the day --> Inline::Parrot! -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.pobox.com

use parrot;

2001-10-20 Thread raptor
hi, will it be possible to do this inside Perl program : use parrot; ...parrot code... no parrot; OR sub mysub is parrot { parrot code ... } = iVAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] =