On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 05:37:24PM -0400, Blake Winton wrote:
> * Paul Prescod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010930 17:33]:
> > > File operations and network operations are fundamental to the
> > > interpreter, so dedicating opcodes to them makes sense. 
> > Also, are file ops and network ops really fundamental? Might
> > not parrot be used in embedded environments ...
> Speaking as someone who's been playing with Python on the
> PalmPilot, I would very much like to second this point.  Having
> files and network ops be fundamental just means more pain for
> someone trying to port the languages to the PalmPilot

If you have a memory card in your Palm like the m500 series (and I believe
the Sony whatever-it-is) then you do indeed have a filesystem.  And the
Palm also has networking capabilities.

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