Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[boris]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Guido van Rossum muttered...
: > Do you really want to encourage people to pick up something as complex as
: > Parrot and start contributing without looking at the gestalt of how it works?
: > We get enough uninformed patches as it is. :)
: 
: Oh, great.  Now obscurity is a virtue.  Jeez.  I guess that's true for
: Perl code as well?
: 
: I'm beginning to get second thoughts about the idea of a VM for Perl
: and Python already.  The cultural differences are vast.

I have to say making source code obscure is an exercise in shooting yourself
in the foot, it's not good practice and kills readability.

I also think this problem should be resolved especially as I think a common
Virtual machine would be a _very_ good thing.

Regards,

Chris Ross
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