Re: Re: Python/Parrot still alive? (fwd)

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

> 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

In addition, "interpreter" has commonly two meanings: (1) the virtual
machine; (2) the read-eval-print loop.

I think that meaning 2 is probably not technically correct, but I've
met so many people who used it in this way (often at the excusion of
meaning 1) that this by itself is another reason to start using
virtual machine.  OTOH we may usefully use meaning 2 to distinguish
ourselves from Java (and even Perl).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)