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[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido at beopen.com> writes:

    GvR> The best you could hope for would be something at the (much
    GvR> lower) level of Java bytecode, with extensive
    GvR> language-specific runtime support for language-specific
    GvR> object semantics.  This is what the Python translator that
    GvR> Mark Hammond wrote for Microsoft's .NET project does.

Probably much more useful, if possible, would be to modularize some
key functionality that the languages have in common.  The only example
I can think of off hand would be a regexp engine.  It's kind of silly
that all three languages would support the same syntax and largely the
same features and functionality with entirely different code bases.

-Barry