Comments on: NQP highlights a serious problem with Parrot. http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/131 Just another Blogsavy.com weblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:47:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Aaron Sherman http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/131#comment-258 Aaron Sherman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:53:28 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/144#comment-258 I have to disagree with your assessment. No one's code stopped working when NQP came out. It's a new layer that modularizes and abstracts the previously low-level (TGE) way of transforming ASTs. Many examples in the languages directory of the Parrot source tree don't actually use NQP because they pre-date it, and that's fine. Your comment makes me think of someone seeing the first release of libwww-perl and saying, "this demonstrates that Perl is not a stable programming language." If Parrot comes out with a debugger, will that also demonstrate that it isn't stable? What about an internationalization toolkit? I have to disagree with your assessment. No one’s code stopped working when NQP came out. It’s a new layer that modularizes and abstracts the previously low-level (TGE) way of transforming ASTs. Many examples in the languages directory of the Parrot source tree don’t actually use NQP because they pre-date it, and that’s fine.

Your comment makes me think of someone seeing the first release of libwww-perl and saying, “this demonstrates that Perl is not a stable programming language.”

If Parrot comes out with a debugger, will that also demonstrate that it isn’t stable? What about an internationalization toolkit?

]]> By: mj http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/131#comment-257 mj Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:54:08 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/144#comment-257 Parrot and this article related links: * www.ohloh.net/projects/4406?p=Parrot * www.perlfoundation.org/parrot_grant_from_nlnet * www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/constraints_and_software_devel.html * perl6.cz/wiki/Perl_6_and_Parrot_links Parrot and this article related links:
* http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4406?p=Parrot
* http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot_grant_from_nlnet
* http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/constraints_and_software_devel.html
* perl6.cz/wiki/Perl_6_and_Parrot_links

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