Re: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Prothon on CPython intrepreter? [PROTHON]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:26:18 -0700 "Brett C." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark Hahn wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:56:05 -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>This CPython->.Net->CProthon roadmap will get Prothon out quickly and slowly
> >>ease my wild ideas for the interpreter into Prothon.  It will also make
> >>CPython a multiple language VM for the first time.
> > 
> > 
> > I've gotten a cold reception to this idea of implementing Prothon on the 
> > CPython interpreter.  Not only did Christian Tismer (and he should know) 
> > and others warn me of the technnical challenge I was signing up for, but 
> > there wasn't exactly a groundswell of enthusiasm for the idea overall.
> > 
> 
> Sorry to hear about this.  Hopefully you can end up with a nice enough 
> AST for Prothon that targetting other VMs won't be any more difficult 
> than just writing walker for the AST.
> 
Yes it is too bad. I personally do not think it would have been as big
a job as everyone put on. .Net will not be a easy either. And the only
thing that would definitely be lost would be free running native threads.
But if Stackless is being discontinued then there is no point considering it.
I do not know the history behind Stackless so do not know why it did not
get a better reception. Having finally taken a peek at the source code I
see it involves fewer changes to CPython than I had imagined. Oh well.

Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>