31 Jul
2001
31 Jul
'01
1:59 p.m.
Ka-Ping Yee
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Things Python would bring to this party: our serious-cool GC, our C extension/embedding system (*much* nicer than XS). Things Perl would bring: blazingly fast regexps, taint, flexitypes, references.
I don't really understand the motivation. Do we want any of those things?
No, but we want to be able to interoperate with Perl and have if possible have just one back end on which efforts to do things like native code compilation can be concentrated. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. -- H. L. Mencken