Istvan Albert wrote: > Disclaimer: this is not a flame against Boo. > > It just boggles my mind that a language that describes itself as > "python inspired syntax" keeps being touted as: > > >>Luis M. Gonzalez wrote: >>Boo (which could be considered almost an static version of Python for .NET) > > > Boo is *nothing* like a static version of Python. Stop perpetuating > this nonsense.
There is no static version of python, only a proposal[1] which was quickly stomped on and revised to be about slower runtime type-checking: def gcd(a: int, b: int) -> int: while a: a, b = b%a, a return b The boo equivalent is: (http://boo.codehaus.org/) def gcd(a as int, b as int) as int: while a: a, b = b%a, a return b Looks "nearly identical" to me. (Istvan has been a long spewer of anti-boo FUD on this list) [1] http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list