At 05:27 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > 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.
Ah, well if *that*'s the only problem... I've friends in the area I keep
threatening to visit, and museums I keep threatening the kids with. I can
reassure you in person. Heck, I'll even tell your cat I'm serious. If you
don't have a cat, I can fix that too. Granted, I might just be reassuring
you that your decision to *not* ever see me in person was the right one,
but... :)
>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.
The interface with Larry's spotty at times (though we chat more or less
weekly, when people aren't busy flying planes into places I used to work),
but don't forget we do have Perl 5 (and Python and Ruby, to some extent) as
a base, so we don't have to be in contact all that often. I know far more
about where perl 5 went wrong than any sane person has any right to know.
While I'm shooting rather higher than just fixing those, even that far will
get us a darned good base to start from.
Scurrilous comments about my current state of sanity are, of course, always
in order. :-P
Dan
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