Re: [simon@netthink.co.uk: PRESS RELEASE: Perl and Python to begin joint development]

["Thomas A. Lowery" <stlowery@yahoo.com>]

I wondered what this years would be.

LOL,
Tom

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:57:05AM -0400, Robert Spier wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Simon Cozens <simon@netthink.co.uk> -----
> 
> From: Simon Cozens <simon@netthink.co.uk>
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 09:20:52 +0100
> To: perl5-porters@perl.org, perl6-internals@perl.org, perl6-announce@perl.org
> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Perl and Python to begin joint development
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> [Note: I've been asked to release this as editor of www.perl.com; I'll give
> my *personal* opinions on the move later in the day or tomorrow. See also,
> however, the feature at http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm
> ]
> 
> 04/01/2001
> SEBASTOPOL, CA
> 
> Perl and Python to begin joint development
> 
> Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, and Guido van Rossum, creator of
> Python, today announced that their respective projects are about to
> begin a period of joint development. 
> 
> According to the language designers, the idea surfaced at last year's
> Open Source Convention - "We at the Perl Conference were aware of a need
> for a new direction for Perl and for its community, and that's why we
> announced the work on Perl 6," said an excited Wall. "At the same time,
> Guido was thinking very hard about Python 2.0 and where it was going,
> and we got together and started talking about helping each other out."
> 
> Initially, the pair planned to have their development communities
> working together for mutual benefit. van Rossum cited some of the
> technical reasons for the collaboration: "Perl's highly powerful regular
> expression engine would be integrated into Python, and would benefit us
> greatly; in return, we've got a number of things right that Perl could
> gain from, such as signal handling and robust software engineering."
> 
> However, as both designers talked about the changes their languages were
> going through, they came to the conclusion that they had much to share
> at the language level as well as the interpreter level. According to
> Larry Wall, "Perl's always been about taking the best features of all
> the other languages available; it's perfectly natural for us to
> integrate the best features of Python too."
> 
> The specifications for the combined language, called Parrot, will be
> documented in the forthcoming book "Programming Parrot In A Nutshell",
> to be published by O'Reilly and Associates. In the meantime, the Python
> Software Foundation is said to be making arrangements to merge with Yet
> Another Society. YAS president Kevin Lenzo was delighted at the move:
> "It's a natural extension of what YAS was set up to facilitate -
> collaboration and communication between programming communities."
> 
> Parrot development will begin with the merger of the Py3K development
> team with the Perl 6 internals working group; Jeremy Hylton and Dan
> Sugalski will be the joint development leads.
> 
> Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum both recently accepted positions at the
> Vancouver, Canada development company ActiveState. A spokesman for
> ActiveState said that the company was obviously very pleased with the
> decision, but denied that ActiveState had influenced it in any way.

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Thomas A. Lowery	stlowery@yahoo.com
http://tlowery.hypermart.net

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