Aug. 12, 2001
4:11 a.m.
I don't have context for this thread anymore, so perhaps this is already what's being discussed: Perhaps a less ambitious (than Parrot) but still very useful project would be a portable stdio-like library that has the features dynamic languages need? This could be based upon a few low-level calls like read() and write() on Unix. These tend to exist in most platforms C libraries (even on Windows) because they're so darned useful. For full "portability" it should be possible to implement these yourself if the platform doesn't have them (or if they are not fast enough!). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)