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Subject:   is it a war?
Date:   2003-10-30 17:06:10
From:   anonymous2
I will grant that my knowledge of this subject comes largely from the perl6-internals mailing list, but it would seem to me to be hard to wage a war between VM's that serve different programming niches.


CLR and Mono are targeted towards implementing fairly static languages, while Parrot looks to serve dynamic languages. This is a big reason why Parrot was started in the first place, rather than aiming to make Perl run on CLR or other VM's. There are things that dynamic languages do or will do that don't have good implementation support on CLR and the like
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  • David Sklar photo is it a war?
    2003-10-31 07:20:12  David Sklar | O'Reilly Author [View]

    I think folks at Microsoft (and Ximian/Novell, I suppose) would like CLR-hosted languages to be used for the things that dynamic Parrot-friendly languages are used for. Hence the conflict, whether Parrot is spoiling for a fight or not.
    • is it a war?
      2003-10-31 12:01:28  anonymous2 [View]

      well, then that is the old my language is better than your language holy war, and isn't specifically VM-specific. No doubt the war is much more a reality for those _using_ the languages than for those writing a language to run on a particular VM
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