[Kde-bindings] Parrot

[Sean McGlynn]

Hello All,

Just wondering if anybody has been playing with the parrot VM and its Native 
Call Interface (NCI) for binding it to KDE.

Just in case you're not following parrot's progress (hmm, sounds like a 
book!), one of the core developers recently posted a simple way of calling Qt 
from parrots high level assembler code (pasm). I've played with it and also 
with creating a couple of small KDE apps. It's all very simple and jolly good 
fun for all the family :-)
Have a look at

http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg15024.html

for the code if you're interested. It's small and fairly simple to 
understand. Parrot itself is really nifty, even in its current state. If you 
wanna play, anon cvs instructions are at http://www.parrotcode.org. Download 
and compile is a 5 minute job.

As parrot is designed to be a universal VM for any dynamic language, such as 
Python, Ruby etc., and not just for Perl6 (its reason for being), it has the 
potential to be an all-in-one scripting solution for KDE, ("potential" being 
the operative word here ;-)

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has had time (or gets time) to play 
with it.

Cheers,
Sean
-- 
Sean McGlynn
sean at tmiau.com

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