in reply to Interaction between languages in Parrot

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The vision for Perl 6 is more than simply a rewrite of Perl 5. By sepa
+rating the parsing from the compilation and the runtime, we're openin
+g the doors for multiple languages to cooperate. You'll be able to wr
+ite your program in Perl 6, Perl 5, TCL, Python, or any other languag
+e that there's a parser written for. Interchangable runtime engines l
+et you interpret your bytecode or convert it to something else (e.g.,
+ Java, C, or even back to Perl).

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Re^2: Interaction between languages in Parrot
by ruoso (Curate) on Dec 19, 2005 at 19:37 UTC

    But... If java.lang.String is a Java Class, and I create a subclass of it in Perl6, will it be possible to use the My::String::Subclass as an argument to methods defined in Java Classes?

    Maybe it's just written in the statement you quote, but I couldn't be sure just by reading it (which I made before posting here in the first time)...

    daniel
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      It is my understand that the mechanisms to make such linkages possible are part of parrot. The big trick though is getting languages to target parrot such that it is possible.

      duff

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        But still, if the PMC is implemented differently for each language (this is what I understood, and it actually makes sense), how is it possible for code written in different languages to communicate (using more than the native types)?

        I'm really lost... ;)

        daniel
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