On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 1:04:27 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: There was a much older 'python in a spreadsheet' program, created by Resolver Systems. I followed it with interest, they tried to create a commercial product out of it but failed.
That product used IronPython - an alternate implementation of Python implemented on the Dynamic Language Runtime for .NET <https://ironpython.net>. Resolver Systems is long gone, but IronPython is still out there, though development by its tiny team is slow - the current release added Python3 features, and was released early in 2023; it is closest to CPython 3.4. Unlike CPython, IronPython has no Global Interpreter Lock ("GIL"), and it used unicode for strings long before that was sorted out in CPython. Differences between IronPython and CPython make IronPython a dialect, but one well-suited to multi-threaded projects. It is an excellent "glue language" as it is an interpreter with a JIT compiler; it has full access to .NET as well as to Win32; it also has access to libraries accessible through CTypes. In my day job, I write complex macros in IronPython for an application that controls exotic hardware; I prefer the IronPython read-eval-print-loop to compiling code through a heavyweight IDE and compiler that Get In My Way. Michael Foord and Christian Muirhead, who were with Resolver Systems, wrote an excellent book on IronPython <https://www.manning.com/books/ironpython-in-action>. While its content has not been updated to address the current release, its exploration of .NET specifics makes it worth reading for the newcomer to IronPython. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/68157a41-abfa-4983-bda5-1ddd0edc8b6dn%40googlegroups.com.
