On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm beginning to get second thoughts about the idea of a VM for Perl
> and Python already. The cultural differences are vast.
The cultural differences are completely irrelevant. If we produce a tool
that's fast and efficient, and you can and want to use it, go ahead and use
it. Nobody's going to stop you. And if you can't or don't want to use it, hey,
not a problem, we've still got an interpreter *we* can use and nobody's lost
anything. 'course, someone else might end up writing a Python compiler to it
anyway. :)
Of course, if you want to help out, that would be very cool; but if not, and
the development's mainly fueled by Perl people, you only have yourselves to
blame if it ends up being too Perl-centric. (Well, you can also legitimately
blame me, because I'm trying my damnedest to stop that from happening, but
it's impossible for me to see the intricate details of every dynamic language
out there.)
Simon
--
"Keeping UUCP running is starting to seem a lot like keeping a 130-year-old
man who smokes 4 packs a day on life support because he's the last person
on Earth who knows how to do the cha-cha, but he won't tell anyone."
- Ryan Tucker, in a.s.r
