Re: Python/Parrot still alive? (fwd)

Stephan Deibel <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 09:51:23 -0500 (EST)

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Saw this on CLP.  I think it's probably a good point.

- Stephan

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Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:41:08 -0800
From: Paul Prescod <[email protected]>
To: "[ISO-8859-1] \"Martin v. Löwis\"" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Python/Parrot still alive?

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> ...
> 
> If you believe that application servers require Parrot because it
> has a virtual machine, you are certainly wrong:
> - Python does have a virtual machine even without Parrot.
> - Applications servers do not fundamentally require virtual
>   machines.

It is interesting how interpreters have been rebranded as "virtual 
machines." Python people still use the word "interpreter" and that is 
probably not great from a marketing point of view.

  Paul Prescod