[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Let's further suppose that we have a callout mechanism from the Parrot 
> interpreter core to the Perl or Python runtime's C level that can pass out 
> Python/Perl types and return them.
> 
> Given these two premises, what other problems are there?

This solution sounds like just taking two VM interpreters and forcing
them together by having the first byte of the instruction be "Python opcode"
or "Perl opcode". You get none of the wins you were aiming for.

> I can see one: garbage collection.

How is GC a problem? Python never promised a specific GC mechanism,
so as long as you have something which collects garbage, Python is
fine.
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