Sunday, November 17, 2002

So long, Damian, and thanks for all the...poetic line noise? :-) http://www.yetanother.org/damian/diary_latest.html Job well done. 5:53:56 PM      comment []  trackback []

Parrotcl More on Parrot from the TCL community. Not real substantive - I want to see someone step up to write the TCL->Parrot bytecode translator, and this thread doesn't have a hint of that. But its nice to see the anticipation for mod_parrot etc. build. 5:53:55 PM      comment []  trackback []

parrot/pnet synergy Here's an interesting bit of information: The portable.net/dotgnu brain, Rhys Wheatherly, has started making inquiries on the perl6 mailing list about the possibility of exporting parrot bytecode from gnu's C# compiler. I would like to see Rhys' project differentiated from mono, and I think Rhys would like to see the project achieve some independence from Microsoft's IPR (the real reason). I believe that Ximian is angling for commercial relicensing of their mono version, for Windows/.NET software companies that want a Linux story (like uWin does currently, in reverse). But I also think that MS will eventually rattle their legal sabers at Ximian, not because they're threatened by the software, but because they need to drive home the ambiguous legal status of open source in general to defend their market. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to Parrot. 5:53:54 PM      comment []  trackback []