> > 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.
You don't seem to get the point. We're not arguing that Parrot shouldn't support file or network I/O. We're arguing that these shouldn't be so tightly integrated with the core that you can't remove them. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
