March 1, 2000
10:53 p.m.
Jon Erickson (editor-in-chief) of "Doctor Dobb's Journal" would like an article on what's involved in adding garbage collection to Python. Please email me if you're interested in tackling it...
I might -- although I should get Neil, Eric and Tim as co-authors. I'm halfway implementing the scheme that Eric showed yesterday. It's very elegant, but I don't have an idea about its impact performance yet. Say hi to Jon -- we've met a few times. I liked his March editorial, having just read the same book and had the same feeling of "wow, an open source project in the 19th century!" --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)