On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:
Would it make sense to poll both communities for people interested in helping with this effort and maybe making it a standalone project (perhaps on SourceForge?)?
Yes. But you'll have to talk to Nick (<nick@ing-simmons.net>) if you want to play with the current code, since it's his baby.
In fact, there are many bits of the C library that Python people would like to replace or improve but we don't have the resources alone.
*nod*. Perl reimplements far too much of C for my liking. (aton, sprintf, malloc [1] and friends.) I keep telling 'em to use glib. [1] ... but then any C program over a given size reimplements malloc ... -- The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. - Alan Perlis