moma wrote:

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> RUBY needs a Parrot !
> 
> Parrot will be a "common language runtime" for dynamic languages such as
> Ruby, Python and Perl. It will be a competitor to (ecma's)CLI.
> 
> ParrotwillprobablyimplementaJITtoo.

AFAIK they are already working on it.
They also care about bytecode, threading, unicode etc.

> 
> Parrot project
> http://www.parrotcode.org/docs/intro.html
> 
> http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-04/parrot_01.html
> Page-5 has some explanation why implementing a new 'Parrot' and not
> targeting the existing (ecma)CLI and Java VM.
> 
> + Dynamic type systems in Python/Ruby/Perl are too complex for (ecma's)
> frigid CLI spec!
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