On Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 00:31, holger krekel wrote:
- we discussed going for EU-funding. The general oppinion was that the current Call for Proposals fits the possible targets of PyPy pretty well. But going for EU-funding is by far a simple task. We have already talked to some companies and are also looking for research institutions that would want to participate in a big EU-Project. After some discussions especially with Armin i now think that we should promote as a goal to
dynamically tie into/adapt arbritrary C-Libraries and operation system calls.
The latter would basically mean that you could use Python directly to drive your favourite OS. Think rapidly specializing for whatever embedded device without even a libc and doing that with 99% of the code beeing written in Python.
One idea I had (not really worked out) is, to include some security measures already on a language level. While this is not really important on small, standalone applications (we have the OS security for that), there is definatelly an issue with this in a distributed computing environment (easiest case: web application server). Anyway, if you think as well, that security could be part of the project, I'd try to get my company (www.articon-integralis.com) to join (Knowing them, I wouldn't hold my breath, though). In addition, I know some people at German Telekom. Maybe they are interested as well. Cheers Stephan