01 April 2003

Parrot Blogger One of the folks on the Parrot team is blogging, subscribed. 6:05:46 PM    comment []

How dynamic is the CLR and JVM Jon Udell has an interesting article on the state of play when it comes to dynamic typed languages and the CLR/JVM. Both VM's are designed for static typed languages rather than dynamic typed languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby etc. Lots of input on the article via Jon's blog and a great many people have added comments. I do agree with Jon's view that the only VM that will target both dynamic and static types will be Parrot. Despite the arguements for developing a compiler for the CLR or JVM this very fact about Parrot means that it stands a higher chance of being the most popular VM for language support. As I have said in the past, Parrot will be one to watch. 6:03:45 PM    comment []

XPath in Yukon - via Kuro5hin Missed this in the orginal press release (how could I !!) but the next version of SQL Server (Yukon) will include support for XPath. It just gets better and better !!! 5:53:43 PM    comment []

Generics in .NET A nice summary presentation on Generics in .NET from an IL point of view. 5:49:38 PM    comment []