I read an article on http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm about a joint effort between Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum to conceive a new animal. According to them camel + python = parrot. I personally have very mixed feelings about this project. One the one hand I have always thought that interoperability between P&P would be a great thing. I even planned (for some time now) to start a project called "Babylon" to create an interoperability framework for Python, Perl, and Tcl. On the other hand, the new language scares me... The biggest reason of all is that I am deeply in love with Python's syntax. After all, Perl and Python are roughly equivalent in what they offer to the programming community. But I could never bring myself to learn Perl's ugly syntax. I love the fact that Python syntax can be easily read by people who know nothing but BASIC -- the syntax is simple and natural. My question is, why can't Parrot be an open virtual machine just like Microsoft's CLR? That way, both Python source code and Perl source code would compile down to Parrot byte codes, and Pythonians wouldn't have to abandon Python's syntax. I understand that Perl could use some syntactical cleaning up... but why abandon Python? In fact If people like Parrot syntax, why not have parrot compile to common byte code too? -- Alex Shindich mailto:alex at shindich.com Visit http://www.shindich.com/
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