Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-15 Thread Dennis Allison
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Brett Cannon wrote: It is time once again in my educational career to come to python-dev for help for major project ideas. This time, though, it is for my Ph.D. dissertation (and thus can have larger scope than my masters thesis) but there are funding restrictions (and

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-15 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/15/06, Dennis Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Brett Cannon wrote: It is time once again in my educational career to come to python-dev for help for major project ideas. This time, though, it is for my Ph.D. dissertation (and thus can have larger scope than my

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-14 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Brett, If by any chance PyPy continues to be funded beyond 2006, we would definitely welcome you around :-) (If our funding model doesn't change, it might be difficult for us to give you money oversea, though... just asking, just in case, would you consider moving to a European university?)

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-14 Thread Jason Orendorff
Brett, You could create a downloadable corpus of Python source code, and maybe a web site through which people can easily browse/search it, contribute to it, and maintain it. The point would be to support language designers, tool developers, and researchers. Several python-dev folks have their

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-14 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/14/06, Armin Rigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brett, If by any chance PyPy continues to be funded beyond 2006, we would definitely welcome you around :-) (If our funding model doesn't change, it might be difficult for us to give you money oversea, though... just asking, just in case,

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-13 Thread Ian Bicking
Brett Cannon wrote: Hmm. It's an idea. I also thought of Python - JavaScript compiler since JavaScript is not fun and getting to test using Python might be cool. But not sure how useful that would be. Plus I bet someone has does this with Java or something. There's a Python project that

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/12/06, Dennis Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett, Where are you doing your Phd and who will be your likely supervisor? It does make a difference. University of British Columbia under Eric Wohlstadter in the Software Practices Lab. Your dissertation idea list seems to me to focus

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-12 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:36 PM 1/12/2006 -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: (I have a third, AOP for anything, but I don't think AOP is a good match for Python and thus not considering it for Python work) For what it's worth, I've been doing what I'll loosely refer to as research on implementing a non-traditional form of

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-12 Thread Bill Janssen
Brett, How about building a system that compiles a Python program (possibly annotated) to an AJAX program? That is, it analyzes the program to determine what's appropriate and possible for client-side and server-side, figures out the optimal network API (reduce latency, reduce calls, reduce data

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-12 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/12/06, Bill Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett, How about building a system that compiles a Python program (possibly annotated) to an AJAX program? That is, it analyzes the program to determine what's appropriate and possible for client-side and server-side, figures out the optimal

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-12 Thread Steve Holden
Brett Cannon wrote: On 1/12/06, Bill Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett, How about building a system that compiles a Python program (possibly annotated) to an AJAX program? That is, it analyzes the program to determine what's appropriate and possible for client-side and server-side,

Re: [Python-Dev] Ph.D. dissertation ideas?

2006-01-12 Thread Dennis Allison
Brett, Where are you doing your Phd and who will be your likely supervisor? It does make a difference. Your dissertation idea list seems to me to focus on implementation projects and not on research. Usually a dissertation proceeds from a hypothesis leading to an experiment, some