cc'ing parrot-dev. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Ovid<publiustemp-perl6compil...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Aza Raskin, the head of user experience at Mozilla labs > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin), was giving a talk at the BBC today > and I asked him about multiple client-side language support. > > The short response is that this will not be implemented soon, but it sounded > like they were leaning towards the LLVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llvm) > to implement this. In fact, Aza seemed to be under the impression that > Parrot was a dead project. I asked permission to mail him about this later > and he said "yes" (I suspect he might simply have been polite) and I'm > wondering the best way to approach this. > > My first thought (for Parrot devs), one which I know has been discussed > before, is about sandboxing Parrot and how to implement authorities for > adjusting the sandbox restrictions. > > My second thought is rather blue sky (and directed at Mozilla, but I'll > mention it here) is how this would look on the client side. Here's what I > think would be a sample API: > > <script > grammar="http://my.server.com/my/custom/grammar/"; > version="1.2" > authority="https://my.server.com/grammar/authority/";> > > include My.Login; > Document login_form password matches(SafePassword) > or element error("Password must match #{SafePassword}"); > > </script> > > > In other words, if the sandbox is secure enough, one could use the Parrot > Compiler Toolkit to write a set of bindings to allow you to write your > client-side in any language you like, include bespoke languages, if desired. > I think this could be a very compelling feature and perhaps might pique > Mozilla's interest. More to the point, Aza specifically mentioned that he > wants to write his client side code in Python. > > Cheers, > Ovid > -- > Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ > Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ > Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl > Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6 > >
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