State of Parrot -- was: Re: State of Python

[andrew cooke]

Häring <gh at ghaering.de> writes:
> cooke wrote:
> > [...]
> > also, i wonder how much parrot will attract people away from python?
> 
> This sentence doesn't make sense. You could as well say

it would have made more sense if you'd quoted the rest of what i said:

> > many of the things i notice about python are related to people
> > using it to play with new ideas in languages.  parrot might be a
> > more attractive platform for those people.

while the same also applies to jvm and clr (and the squeak vm, and
others), it seems that parrot is going to be more interesting
(supporting a wider range of paradigms more easily).

for examples of python as "the language techniques laboratory for the
masses" see http://lambda.weblogs.com/newsItems/viewDepartment$python

andrew

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