> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:01:00PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > I'm interested, but despite repeated requests, I haven't seen proof
> > that Larry Wall is interested in making Parrot a multi-language
> > runtime.
>
> This is not a pointed question, and it doesn't preclude any efforts
> for us to get Larry to mail you, (which we should probably do)
> because I understand your concern, but why do you believe Larry is
> involved in Parrot at all? Dan is the designer, I'm the
> maintainer. Larry's away designing a language which just happens to
> target it.
Quoting what I just mailed Nat:
My problem is, I don't know any of the folks who are currently
working on the Parrot project personally, and I am having a hard
time figuring out how serious you all are about supporting Python.
I know Larry well enough to trust him, but Nat, and Dan, and
Simon, are all just email addresses to me, and I have no idea what
the relationship is between you all and Larry.
In addition, I find it hard to believe that you all aren't talking to
Larry at all -- some coordination between the language design and the
back-end design must be necessary. (I've seen languages before that
were designed without caring for implementation issues -- usually the
implementation teams ended up changing the language because the
specification wasn't implementable efficiently, or at all.)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
