Re: ANN: python-constraint 1.0

2005-07-07 Thread gabriele renzi
Gustavo Niemeyer ha scritto: Overview **python-constraint** [1]_ is a Python module offering solvers for Constraint Solving Problems (CSPs) over finite domains in simple and pure Python. CSP is class of problems which may be represented in terms of variables (`a`, `b`,

Re: Which kid's beginners programming - Python or Forth?

2005-06-29 Thread gabriele renzi
BORT ha scritto: All, The Forth-Python pull was heading to a conclusion just like Tastes Great vs. Less Filling or Ford-Chevy. However, friendly folks at comp.lang.forth pointed me to Amazon.com and _Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas_ by Seymour Papert. The book is by

Re: anonymous function objects?

2005-04-28 Thread gabriele renzi
Uwe Mayer ha scritto: Friday 29 April 2005 00:06 am Paul Rubin wrote: Closest you can come is: f = lambda: sys.stdout.write(hello world\n) Ah. :)) Why does the print statement return a syntax error here? ^ this is the reason :) You can't have statements into an

Re: Python evolution: Unease

2005-01-06 Thread gabriele renzi
Alex Martelli ha scritto: But Alex is right; Envisage does hold a lot of promise. The very concept of an architecture based on a spare skeleton and copious plugins is intrinsically excellent, and I think that by now eclipse has proven it's also practically viable for real-world powerful

Re: Cookbook 2nd ed Credits (was Re: The Industry choice)

2005-01-05 Thread gabriele renzi
Jacek Generowicz ha scritto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: ...but each still gets ONE free copy...!-) Who gets Luther Blissett's copy ? :-) And are all the Luther Blissetts the same Luther Blisset ? no, some of them are Wu Ming http://www.wumingfoundation.com/ (from

Re: Continuations Based Web Framework - Seaside.

2005-01-02 Thread gabriele renzi
Mike Thompson ha scritto: 'Seaside' is a Smalltalk framework for what might be called Modal Web Development or Synchronous Web Programming, or even Continuation Based Web Apps. http://www.beta4.com/seaside2/ Very sexy it looks too. And it seems to be generating a lot of interest - Ruby

Re: Complementary language?

2004-12-26 Thread gabriele renzi
Robin Becker ha scritto: Alex Martelli wrote: . If you're looking for SERIOUS multiparadigmaticity, I think Oz may be best -- http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/book.html (the book's authors critique the vagueness of the paradigm concept, and prefer model, but that's much the same thing).

Re: Complementary language?

2004-12-26 Thread gabriele renzi
Alex Martelli ha scritto: Nolo contendere (not having looked much into Alice yet), but are there stand-alone didactical materials for Alice as there are for Oz? It seemed to me that the available materials for Alice basically take SML somewhat for granted, while Oz does come with tutorials

Re: Optional Static Typing

2004-12-25 Thread gabriele renzi
Mike Meyer ha scritto: John Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message This may sound a bit cynical, but most real uber-programmers have either Lisp or Smalltalk in their backgrounds, and frequently both one. Neither of those languages have static typing, and they simply