Comment Re:He talks about Perl? (Score 2, Insightful) 161
...and the Perl 6 interpreter (parrot) is essentially complete...
Actually, parrot is a virtual machine meant to run interpreted languages. That's one of the cool things about it -- ruby and python could both be written to run on it, and then a parrot-to-machine-code compiler could be written, and I could finally compile ruby. Yay!
Compiler != interpreter
Actually, parrot is a virtual machine meant to run interpreted languages. That's one of the cool things about it -- ruby and python could both be written to run on it, and then a parrot-to-machine-code compiler could be written, and I could finally compile ruby. Yay!
Compiler != interpreter
