Spanish Inquisition?!

[Michael Hudson]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, David Oppenheimer wrote:

> In a previous thread (about languages interpreted versus languages
> compiled) there was talk of the Spanish Inquisition.  I am guessing that
> this is 1) a joke or 2) the code name for a "secret" project to create
> compiled code from python code and thereby permanently blur the line for
> Python.  Anyone know anything about this?

I'm presuming it was a joke. There are various bits of vaguely relavent
vapour - Swallow & Viper are two of them. dejanews is your friend...

> P.S. Creating compiled code from Python  that didn't require the
> interpreter to be distributed with it would be high magic indeed.

No kidding.

Regards,
Michael