[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire? (original) (raw)

Simon Cozens simon@netthink.co.uk
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 01:06:33 +0100

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote:

Would it make sense to poll both communities for people interested in helping with this effort and maybe making it a standalone project (perhaps on SourceForge?)?

Yes. But you'll have to talk to Nick (<nick@ing-simmons.net>) if you want to play with the current code, since it's his baby.

In fact, there are many bits of the C library that Python people would like to replace or improve but we don't have the resources alone.

nod. Perl reimplements far too much of C for my liking. (aton, sprintf, malloc [1] and friends.)

I keep telling 'em to use glib.

[1] ... but then any C program over a given size reimplements malloc ...

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