Re: So, what the heck is a continuation anyway?

[Adam Turoff <address@hidden>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:33:07AM -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> The archives do not explain why a VM in C that happens to execute Scheme
> byte codes does not work for Parrot-hosted languages. Research would, but 
> I doubt you'd care. -- Matthias

Um... 

	I think the set of scheme programmers good enough to do
	this who are also familiar enough with ruby, perl and/or
	python is empty. Certainly far too small to sustain
	development. Plus there are portability issues.

	Parrot's in C not because it's the best language for the
	task (it isn't, by far--I loathe C in a number of ways)
	but because it's both widespread enough to have a reasonably
	large group of folks competent in it for our purposes, and
	on enough platforms to be give us a chance of running
	everywhere.

(http://www.ai.mit.edu/%7Egregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg00164.html)

Z.