I always enjoy reading these, but somehow I miss the significance of building a BASIC interpreter in Parrot Assembler...
(Of cource, I haven't researched the Parrot Assembler at all, is it, perhaps, written in Perl?)
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The assembler's mostly perl, with some XS code attached. We're trying for an article on Parrot for each issue of TPR, as it's what we're building Perl 6 on top of. Since we don't quite have enough Perl 6 to build, we're starting off a bit lower-level. The BASIC interpreter's pretty cool in and of itself, and as it's a language implemented on top of Parrot we thought it'd be of interest to people looking to implement other languages (like perl--hint, hint) on top of it as well.
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