At 12:26 AM -0400 9/4/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>IANADan, but he's aware of these issues, and is/has been thinking about
>them.
Heh. Well, I am. Lucky me. :)
This is something I've been thinking about since we formally
announced we were going semi-language-neutral.
>Separating Parrot isn't as trivial as s/erl/arrot/g, and probably won't
>be done *completely*.
Nope. What's more likely is that Parrot will accumulate bits from
other languages--rather than losing Perl we'll gain Ruby and Python.
Maybe others too.
>We're not going to fool anyone that this isn't a Pet Perl Project, and
>while other communities are eyeing us, it's not clear that the amount of
>work to obliterate that line is going to be worth the cost.
Once there's sufficient reason, and I'm pretty easy on this, we'll
switch to a more neutral look. Or if there turns out to be a good
time, we can switch then too.
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Dan
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