Re: Re: interim release 697

Mark Hahn wrote:
> Paul Prescod wrote:
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>>Excellent. What a lot of hard work!
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> Thanks.
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> It sure would be easier if someone was helping out though.  <Hint> <Hint>

You should be careful what you wish for. The amount of time people have 
to spend on Prothon is limited. According to the Prothon home page, the 
most helpful thing people can do right now is contribute to the design. 
The people you've assembled are experts in various areas of language 
design. It is a lot of effort to keep up just with the Prothon _design_ 
much less its current implementation. I frankly don't even have time to 
understand all details of the design like what you are currently 
thinking for threads.

None of us yet have got anything out of Prothon that would reward us 
even for our investment so far. We can't use it at work. We can't even 
use it for hobby projects because interpreter changes would break our 
code every week.

I believe Guido did Python mostly alone from around 1990 to around 1994. 
Obviously we all hope and expect that once the Prothon interpreter 
stabilizes the Prothon community would jump in more quickly.

  Paul Prescod