Re^2: Parrot, the future of dynamic languages ?

Nice slides but I am bit surprised about the claim thas Java runs on only 2-3 platforms and Parrot will run on at least 7. I thought Java runs on a lot more platforms (incl. phones), Perl runs on even more platforms (excl. mobile phones) and Parrot is planned to run on all the platforms where Perl currently runs.

What am I missing in the definition of platform ?

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Re^3: Parrot, the future of dynamic languages ? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 20, 2004 at 18:21 UTC
You're missing that Sun has three different Java platforms (J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME) that support different features and supports them on only a handful of operating systems (Windows and Solaris the best, Linux sort of second-hand, and everything else further down the line). For example, I run Linux PPC. When will I see J2SE 1.5? It's worse if I run FreeBSD x86. For anything more "exotic", forget it. Now consider where Perl 5 runs.	[reply]

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Re^3: Parrot, the future of dynamic languages ?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 20, 2004 at 18:21 UTC

You're missing that Sun has three different Java platforms (J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME) that support different features and supports them on only a handful of operating systems (Windows and Solaris the best, Linux sort of second-hand, and everything else further down the line).

For example, I run Linux PPC. When will I see J2SE 1.5? It's worse if I run FreeBSD x86. For anything more "exotic", forget it.

Now consider where Perl 5 runs.

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