Re: Fwd: Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 9/26/2012 2:58 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: You know, usually when I see software decried as America-centric, it's because it doesn't support Unicode. This must be the first time I've seen that label applied to software that

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread alex23
On Sep 26, 10:17 pm, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Notice, I'm not a Unicode illiterate Any chance you could work on your usenet literacy and fix your double posts? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:30:19 -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 9/25/12 11:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: IronPython in C#. Jython is written in Java. CLPython is written in Lisp. Berp and HoPe are written in Haskell. Nuitka is written in C++. Skulpt is written in Javascript. Vyper is written in

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:01:11 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: You remind me of the opening to the song Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. While I always appreciate a good reference to Ian Dury, please stop feeding D.H.'s ego by responding to his taunts. -- Steven --

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 01:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:01:11 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: You remind me of the opening to the song Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. While I always appreciate a good reference to Ian Dury, please stop feeding D.H.'s ego by responding

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread alex23
On Sep 27, 6:27 am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 9/26/2012 4:45 AM, Dwight Hutto wrote: my ego Uh, Dwight, he was not talking to you. The irony, it is so rich :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:14:44 -0700, alex23 wrote: On Sep 26, 10:17 pm, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Notice, I'm not a Unicode illiterate Any chance you could work on your usenet literacy and fix your double posts? I have a better idea: Consign him to the same bin as Dwight Hutto and

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: PyPy is, well, PyPy is amazing, if you have the hardware to run it. It is an optimizing Python JIT compiler, and it can consistently demonstrate speeds of about 10 times the speed of CPython, which

Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of-python -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Harleman
comparison. Michael Harleman From: Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk To: python-list@python.org Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:15 AM Subject: Article on the future of Python Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 9/25/12 4:15 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of-python Interesting article, but the comments of those who say the only language I need to know is Python strike me as a bit limited

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Roy Smith
In article k3sbdr$jce$1...@dont-email.me, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com wrote: the comments of those who say the only language I need to know is Python strike me as a bit limited. I have been convinced that X is the only language I need to know, for many different values of X over the

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:14:27 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of-python -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. I glanced over the article but it seems to me another 'I am afraid this

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:26:19 -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 9/25/12 4:15 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of- python Interesting article, but the comments of those who say the only

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Rubin
Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com writes: language, but it's another thing entirely to call Python the One Language to Rule Them All. (That's C, because all other languages are implemented in it. :-) ) I got into a discussion about that in another newsgroup and noticed that C seems to have

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-25, Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:14:27 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of-python I glanced over the article but it

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Grant Edwards於 2012年9月26日星期三UTC+8上午2時25分31秒寫道: On 2012-09-25, Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:14:27 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest.

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:25:30 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-09-25, Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:14:27 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest.

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: SQL? ... it's time to sell your shares in Oracle. Ehh, I wouldn't be investing in Oracle, but that's more because I think free RDBMSes like PostgreSQL outshine it. And this is even more true of MS SQL

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