[Python-3000] Ctypes as cross-interpreter C calling interface

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:31:31 -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>After thinking about it some more, IMO for most purposes ctypes is
>really quite sub-optimal. I think it would make more sense to work on
>Parrot support for Python. Sure, in the short term  ctypes is more
>practical than Parrot -- in its most recent incarnation, the latter
>doesn't even list Python as a supported language -- a regression from
>last year when Python support was among the best. But in the long
>term, Parrot (like .NET or Jython do in other contexts) offers
>cross-language interoperability, and perhaps even (like .NET and
>Jython) automatic generation of wrappers.
>

This is a joke, right?

Jean-Paul