Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-05 Thread mrjoltcola
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:27:05 -0700 Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Speaking of Sub/Coroutine/Continuation, right now we *really* need >someone who pretends to understand this stuff to take a look at >Jonathan Sillito's patches and do something with them. Or give him >commit privs, or somethi

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-05 Thread Steve Fink
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:11:45PM -0400, John Porter wrote: > Thanks, Steve. I agree 100% with everything you said! > > Except: > > > ... the best way to that > > goal is to use Perl6 as the driver, at least until something else > > shows up, because that's the only way to derive realistic req

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-05 Thread Andrew Kuchling
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:27:42PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote: >This is no surprise. Parrot documentation will be lacking until >things settle down. Actually it's not so much the documentation. I didn't complain about 0.0.7 and 0.0.8 requiring changes to parrot-gen.py, because that's simply to be

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:23 PM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: >> John Porter wrote: >> > Some folks seem to think that sufficient reason exists now. >> >> That's fine. You don't have to convince some folks. You have to convince me. > >Actually, uh, I was kinda hoping that some folks would c

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Joe Mason
Oops, I seem to have sent this direct to Dan instead of to the list. Sorry for the duplication, Dan. On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:42:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 7:34 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: > >Sean O'Rourke wrote: > >> ... I don't see how giving the list a > >> different name w

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? s/dev/code/, of course. -- John Douglas Porter

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > make things easier for others to get more of a community buy-in, at the > expense of effort by the Perl folks, but there's no guarantee that those > people will come. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? -- John Douglas Porter

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: > John Porter wrote: > > But what does Larry think? > > Hadn't particularly asked him. Does it really matter? Not if you say it doesn't. -- John Douglas Porter

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: > John Porter wrote: > > Some folks seem to think that sufficient reason exists now. > > That's fine. You don't have to convince some folks. You have to convince me. Actually, uh, I was kinda hoping that some folks would convince you. :-) Anyway, whenever someone (and it see

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Thanks, Steve. I agree 100% with everything you said! Except: > ... the best way to that > goal is to use Perl6 as the driver, at least until something else > shows up, because that's the only way to derive realistic requirements > for what needs to be accomplished. The incorrectness of that i

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerome Quelin) writes: In the works is a new mail setup where we easily can have lists at other domains and still have them available via nntp etc. At that point I can create a dev at parrotcode.org list or something like that. (or when the perl6 people want to work on the int

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:48, Steve Fink wrote: > I'm actually somewhat surprised at how little Parrot is tied to Perl. I've no clue whether I agree or not. OT1H, given its origins from the bosom of Perl, Parrot is surprisingly independent. OTOH, compare where Parrot is to where it *might* have

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:41 PM 9/4/2002 -0400, Andrew Kuchling wrote: >[Please CC: me on any responses.] >First reason I don't work on it very much: > >1. Frankly, it's not much fun. I can spend my free time writing >Python code, an environment I like, or I can work in the unfamiliar >and uncomfortable Parrot build

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Steve Fink
I'm actually somewhat surprised at how little Parrot is tied to Perl. Most of the active developers seem to be working on parrot for its merits as a VM. Perl6, for me at least, mostly provides evidence that this isn't just an exercise in intellectual masturbation, as Simon would say -- there will

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Andrew Kuchling
[Please CC: me on any responses.] I follow the perl6-internals list through checking the archive, and noticed Jerome's posting. I wrote the parrot-gen.py script that he pointed to. Here are my comments on this issue. (Note that I do not speak for the python-dev gang as a whole, but AFAIK I'm

RE: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Dan Sugalski > > At the moment, how many people outside the tight little club > actually care about the name of the mailing list? And how > many more would really care if we changed the name? Answer: You can hardly require a realistic answer to that question because you won't know until yo

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Angel Faus
Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 7:40 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: > > > >Some folks seem to think that sufficient reason exists now. > > That's fine. You don't have to convince some folks. You have to > convince me. Being ultra-pragmatic, the name change: - costs nothing - might make some folks

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:42:24AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 7:34 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: > >Sean O'Rourke wrote: > >> ... I don't see how giving the list a > >> different name will have any real effect ... > > > >? > > > >It will have a huge psychological effect, at least outs

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:40 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Once there's sufficient reason, and I'm pretty easy on this, we'll >> switch to a more neutral look. > >Some folks seem to think that sufficient reason exists now. That's fine. You don't have to convince some folks. You have t

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Nope. What's more likely is that Parrot will accumulate bits from > other languages--rather than losing Perl we'll gain Ruby and Python. > Maybe others too. Parrot: There's more than one language to do it. Sorry but I couldn't resist, Rod -- "Ope

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:36 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: >Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >> IANADan, but he's aware of these issues, and is/has been thinking about >> them. > >Fine. But what does Larry think? Hadn't particularly asked him. Does it really matter? -- Dan -

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:34 AM -0400 9/4/02, John Porter wrote: >Sean O'Rourke wrote: >> ... I don't see how giving the list a >> different name will have any real effect ... > >? > >It will have a huge psychological effect, at least outside our tight >little club. But if that's only as far as you can see... Real

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: > What's more likely is that Parrot will accumulate bits from > other languages--rather than losing Perl we'll gain Ruby and Python. > Maybe others too. But that doesn't address the real issue, which is -- Are we really serious about enabling other languages to target this m

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > IANADan, but he's aware of these issues, and is/has been thinking about > them. Fine. But what does Larry think? > We're not going to fool anyone that this isn't a Pet Perl Project, and > while other communities are eyeing us, it's not clear that the amount of > work

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread John Porter
Sean O'Rourke wrote: > ... I don't see how giving the list a > different name will have any real effect ... ? It will have a huge psychological effect, at least outside our tight little club. But if that's only as far as you can see... -- John Douglas Porter

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed 04 Sep 2002 03:47, Richard Soderberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Markus Laire wrote: > > > > * the name "perl6-internals" is really too restrictive (but this point has > > > already been discussed last week). > > > Would it be possible to rename "perl6-internals" no

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Richard Soderberg
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Markus Laire wrote: > > * the name "perl6-internals" is really too restrictive (but this point has > > already been discussed last week). > Would it be possible to rename "perl6-internals" now to something > better like "parrot-internals"? +1. > There probably are some

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:26 AM -0400 9/4/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >IANADan, but he's aware of these issues, and is/has been thinking about >them. Heh. Well, I am. Lucky me. :) This is something I've been thinking about since we formally announced we were going semi-language-neutral. >Separating Parrot isn't a

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-03 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
IANADan, but he's aware of these issues, and is/has been thinking about them. Separating Parrot isn't as trivial as s/erl/arrot/g, and probably won't be done *completely*. We're not going to fool anyone that this isn't a Pet Perl Project, and while other communities are eyeing us, it's not clear

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-03 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:03, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Markus Laire wrote: > > Would it be possible to rename "perl6-internals" now to something > > better like "parrot-internals"? > > I think aliases can take care of this, though I'm not the sysadmin. > Maybe it makes people fe

RE: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-03 Thread Brent Dax
Sean O'Rourke: # > Would it be possible to rename "perl6-internals" now to something # > better like "parrot-internals"? # # I think aliases can take care of this, though I'm not the # sysadmin. Maybe it makes people feel better to send mail to # "parrot-internals" instead of "perl6-internals"

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-03 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Markus Laire wrote: > On 3 Sep 2002 at 22:17, Jerome Quelin wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > As a recent parroter, what striked me most while reading perl6-internals, is > > that it's very perl-centric. Ok, I agree that: > > ... > > * the name "perl6-internals" is really too re

Re: Parrot: maximizing the audience

2002-09-03 Thread Markus Laire
On 3 Sep 2002 at 22:17, Jerome Quelin wrote: > Hi there, > > As a recent parroter, what striked me most while reading perl6-internals, is > that it's very perl-centric. Ok, I agree that: > ... > * the name "perl6-internals" is really too restrictive (but this point has > already been discusse