Has Mark Hammond attained pariah status yet?

[A.M. Kuchling]

In article <3c8e2b9b$1_4 at news.bluewin.ch>, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
> And what datapoints we acquire through
> the article?

Well, nothing much, which is all I'd expect from something so brief in
a general publication.  Hopefully Mark will clarify at some point.

There does seem to be an increasing trend to vaporware announcements
about language unification, though.  Witness Parrot, Mono, and
SmallScript [1], all of which talk about having support for many
languages including Python, but none of which have actually tried to
build that support or work with the Python community to build it.

[1] http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bq%25F6.22782%24Jh5.22352484%40news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com&output=gplain

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