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I understand that Parrot is a virtual machine, but I feel like I'm not completely grasping the idea behind it.
As I understand, it's a virtual machine that's being made to handle multiple languages. Is this correct?
What are the advantages of using a virtual machine instead of just an interpreter?
What specifically is Parrot doing that makes it such a big deal?
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a person who repeats or imitates the words or actions of another unintelligently. sick as a parrot usually facetious extremely disappointed. verb -rots, -roting or -roted.
Though there are many types of parrots, all parrot species have a few traits in common. For example, to be classified as a parrot, the bird must have a curved beak, and its feet must be zygodactyl, which means there are four toes on each foot with two toes that point forward and two that point backward.
Parrots are popular as pets, offering raucous and gaudy entertainment. Parrots, of the order Psittaciformes, are known for their wittiness, amusement, and intelligence, though they have an incredibly affectionate side as well. They are famous for the extensive imitation, including human words and multitudes of sounds.
Parrot is a virtual machine specifically designed to handle several languages, especially the dynamic languages. Despite some of the interesting technology involved, since it can handle more than one language, it will be able to cross language boundaries. For instance, once it can compile Ruby, Perl, and Python, it should be easy to cross those boundaries to let me use a Ruby library in Python, a Perl library from Python, so whatever combination that I like.
Parrot started in the Perl world and many of the people working on it are experienced Perl people. Instead of using the current Perl interpreter, which is showing its age, Parrot allows Perl to have features such as distributable pre-compiled modules (which everyone else has had for a long time) and a smarter garbage collector.
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