[summerofcode] Python on Parrot

[Ian Bicking]

David Ascher wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>>There was some bad news for Parrot recently:
>>   http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000400.html
>>
>>Well, I guess bad news, or maybe just a bad sign.  But then, this is
> 
> 
> That's just one person stopping work on the project. My (distant)
> understanding is that others are currently working on Parrot, and that
> Parrot is actually being used heavily by the PUGS project.  See
> http://www.parrotcode.org/ and http://www.pugscode.org/

Yeah, looking into it a bit more, it seems more like it's just a change 
of leadership (or a recognition that the leadership has changed), and 
without knowing the details (and there aren't many details out there) 
it's hard to say if it's good or bad.  Good insofar as there don't seem 
to be any political wrangling coming out of it.  And probably good in 
that the people who are doing the work right now are also being given 
the leadership, despite technical disagreements; that's one of the 
hardest transitions for a project to make.  So I think I'd probably 
retract my negative opinions.

And it sure would be nice to have a good open source, cross-language VM 
that prioritized dynamically typed languages.

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org