On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:11:07 +0000, Herbert Snorrason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:43:01 +0100, liorean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any projects to create an implementation of EcmaScript/JavaScript that will run on top of parrot?
I believe not. That's really something that should get done, though...
CLR, JVM and C/C++ implementations exists. As parrot is supposed to be better for dynamic languages, I guess EcmaScript 3.0 would fit right in with parrot.
I have only the smallest knowledge of other languages (have made some tries at Scheme and Ruby, but I don't really feel comfortable with them), but I have used JavaScript since first introduced in nn2 and I'd love to contribute. Could one write an initial compiler in JavaScript, compile from SEE or SpiderMonkey and then run the compiler on that implementation?
Absolutely. Compilers do *not* have to be integrated in with parrot -- my current work project uses Parrot as its back end, but the compiler's written in perl as a standalone program. Works just fine. (Though a Javascript compiler written in Javascript could bootstrap itself pretty nicely. That'd be cool... :)
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