Equivalence of Perl and Python imminent? Gun nut and Pythonista
Eric S. Raymond wants the two projects to merge their bytecode interpreters,
possibly bringing in other languages, such as Ruby and Intercal, to combat
Microsoft's all-devouring .NET. The advantages could possibly include the
ability to use class libraries across languages, and perhaps even a unified
Perl/Python/Ruby/Intercal class library, and the ability to compile any of
these languages to C from bytecode (something that apparently is doable
in Perl).
(via NTK)