Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Guido van Rossum]

> We're approaching it right now with the intent of making Parrot the
> runtime for Perl.  We're trying hard not to close doors for any other
> languages, but until such time as the leaders of other languages are
> actually *interested* in working with us, it didn't seem smart to
> distance the only language we *do* have on-board by writing them out
> of the picture.
> 
> By other languages, I mean Ruby, Python, PHP.

I'm interested, but despite repeated requests, I haven't seen proof
that Larry Wall is interested in making Parrot a multi-language
runtime.  Until I see such proof (in the form of an email from Larry
to me), I don't see the point of my time investment.  Larry has my
email.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)