Have you noticed that the same issues keep coming up over and over: Unicode representation, op despatch and signals, threading, integer preservation, and so on and so on. Have you wondered how other languages, like Python and Tcl, solve these? Do you know that *your* experience with language implementation can be extremely valuable to implementors of other languages? The idea behind the language-dev mailing list is to be a forum for discussing implementation issues of languages such as Perl, Python and Tcl. The hope is that discussion of a particular issue can be branched away temporarily to language-dev to see how other languages deal with it, and then brought back "home" with the participants hopefully more enlightened. The reason I wanted to to be a separate list rather than have people scouting on each other's development lists is to reduce clutter and avoid having stupid questions get in the way of people doing serious development. language-dev is at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll be hawking it around the other languages soon. -- Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.
