At 06:12 PM 7/31/2001 -0700, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

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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?

Taint might be worth something, and i would see the regexp engine as incrementally better perhaps, but that doesn't seem enough to justify a massive re-engineering of both languages.

Honestly, neither language should need any reengineering. If it does, then that means I've failed as a designer. The point isn't to redesign Python to run on the Parrot back-end--it's to design the Parrot back end such that Python runs just fine on it. Which doesn't mean you *can't* redesign, just that you shouldn't have to. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk