On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:42:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 7:34 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: > >Sean O'Rourke wrote: > >> ... I don't see how giving the list a > >> different name will have any real effect ... > > > >? > > > >It will have a huge psychological effect, at least outside our tight > >little club. But if that's only as far as you can see... > > Really? At the moment, how many people outside the tight little club > actually care about the name of the mailing list? And how many more > would really care if we changed the name?
I'd much prefer someone to implement something that allows python programs to run on parrot. Not that I've ever used python, let alone hacked its innards. My reasons are: 1: I'd like some other existing mainstream language to be working 2: The impression I get is that python would be the easiest. (in that it I believe that it has external bytecode of a well-known format) 3: It ought to be easier than either (full) perl5 or (not yet fully written) perl6 However, I confess I'm not sufficiently concerned about this to actually try it. (There are too many things I still want to do with the perl5, it seems) Nicholas Clark
