Using other languages (Java, Perl, Python, etc) in Rev

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com
Tue Feb 5 20:06:01 EST 2002


At 7:46 PM -0500 2/5/02, Jim Witte wrote:
>  Is there any way to extend the scripting architecture of Revolution to support completely different languages than Transcript, specifically bytecode languages like Java, Perl (at least P6 based on Parrot), and maybe Python (I'm not sure if it's bytecode based)?

Transcript is very much like the byte-code languages you describe -- what's your goal? If it's simply to use a different syntax, that's not likely, but if you're simply looking for the performance benefits such languages provide, look no further -- you're already there! :-)

regards,

Geoff




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