Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-26 Thread ssmith
I'd like to second the "wow". I've been lurking on the list for two years, and I wanted to say how impressive this is. The promise of Parrot seems like a fantasy, and here you are with most of Python running at better speed than on it's own interpreter. It's gone from a fantasy to a defect list.

Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Clark C. Evans wrote: Wow. I'm impressed you got anywhere near this far! Your work sounds very promising, a great way to validate Parrot's value proposition. Thanks. On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:24:48PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: | | >>> False=42 But that's not a bug. If one assignes "42" to F

Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-25 Thread Clark C. Evans
Wow. I'm impressed you got anywhere near this far! Your work sounds very promising, a great way to validate Parrot's value proposition. On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:24:48PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: | And there is of course the question, if we should really be | "bug"-compatible | | >>> False

Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:24 PM +0200 7/24/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Below is the last summary of the attempt to implement enough of Python to run the Pie-thon benchmarks - within 5 weeks. Four and a half of seven programs are running. Albeit this experiment did fail, it IMHO has brought Parrot a lot further. Val

RE: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:13 AM -0700 7/24/04, Tim Howell wrote: Does this mean that Dan is conceeding to Guido, or am I missing something? Yep, that's about it. Also, when/where at OSCON is all of this supposed to take place? Python lightning talks. -- Dan -

RE: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Tim Howell
Sugalski Subject: Pie-thon state 5 - and final Below is the last summary of the attempt to implement enough of Python to run the Pie-thon benchmarks - within 5 weeks. Four and a half of seven programs are running. Albeit this experiment did fail, it IMHO has brought Parrot a lot further. Valuable

Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Below is the last summary of the attempt to implement enough of Python to run the Pie-thon benchmarks - within 5 weeks. Four and a half of seven programs are running. Albeit this experiment did fail, it IMHO has brought Parrot a lot further. Valuable interals like integer->bigint promotion are