From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50903260721j2fb4b398qd93aca402a8e85b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <361d2c0d16ae44890a1a2515f261c800@terzarima.net> <24177E28-F531-46C4-8354-2179A4DBB05F@telus.net> <49CA96A6.7060201@orcasystems.com> <16E537CE-3544-46E7-A969-58CA54C35D87@telus.net> <9ab217670903251620n5511aa2ej14b22e725adf6eec@mail.gmail.com> <61d3134867e6e68277b68ed7a6eda4cb@coraid.com> <7871fcf50903260721j2fb4b398qd93aca402a8e85b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:09:43 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Juan M. Mendez" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] request for more GSoC project suggestions Topicbox-Message-UUID: c893a2f6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Maybe porting parrot (http://www.parrot.org ) to Plan9 would be an interesting Gsoc project Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. This is the list of languages at different status of support: http://www.parrot.org/languages -- http://vejeta.com/portal Fidonet: 2:345/432.2