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Perl and Python to begin joint development
Armin Steinhoffa-steinhoff at web.de
Mon Apr 2 09:04:22 EDT 2001
In article <mailman.986151723.14868.python-list at python.org>, Jeremy says...>>[FYI: This press release was also sent to c.l.py.a. Dan and I expect>to have the release schedule PEP ready soon. And, yes, that's Parrot>Enhancement Proposal (PEP). --jeremy]>>04/01/2001>SEBASTOPOL, CA>>Perl and Python to begin joint development sounds like the joke with the chicken and the pork:says the chicken: lets merge together for a meal ... I provide the eggs and you provides the bacon :) Have we say goodbey to GvR ?? Armin>>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 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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