[Chicago] Better than Python?

[Jon Sudlow]

Exactly, but I know their are people out their who are very attached to
their curly braced code blocks.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Jon Sudlow <jsudlow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ruby has some nice idioms like conditional assignments and symbols that
> > sometimes make things easier. Also indentation is not enforced. I think
> if
> > your someone who hates the indentation of python,
>
> Someone who hates indenting code to indicate structure probably
> shouldn't be writing code in the first place.
>
> > then this scripted lang
> > might be fun for you. And I have to admit, I really like Ruby on Rails.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Regarding the concept of extending the Python with new concurrency
> models,
> > language features, and so on, I think that one of the most interesting
> > projects out there is PyPy, which allows for features from other
> languages
> > to be "ported over" to Python relatively easily.  Granted, last I looked
> > PyPy wasn't in a state where it was terribly easy for anyone outside of
> its
> > core development team to do this; but over the past year or two, one
> major
> > way I've learned about interesting features of other languages has been
> by
> > seeing them experimentally ported over to Python through PyPy.  It's a
> great
> > way to preserve Python's user-friendliness while still getting some
> amount
> > of innovation at the language level.
> > >
> > > - Atul
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Rob Kapteyn <robkapteyn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Threading, Concurrency, and Distributed programming are become more
> and
> > more important.
> > > > I have heard that these *might* be better supported by Erlang,
> > http://www.erlang.org/.
> > > >
> > > > I am skeptical, because I have not personally seen it in action in
> the
> > real-world, but it is probably the
> > > > next language I will study.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -Rob
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Mike Kramlich wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > First let me say I love Python and think it's well-designed,
> > > > practical, clear, flexible, chocolate-tasting, etc., and it's my
> > > > default language for hammering nails.
> > > >
> > > > That out of the way, I wanted to throw out a question to the list
> that
> > > > I've been wondering about. Does anyone have their eye on any other
> > > > language to sort of potentially maybe one day replace Python in
> their
> > > > toolbox. I'm not interested in special-purpose tools that could
> outdo
> > > > Python in one specific area, but rather, something general enough
> that
> > > > means it could be your next big all-purpose Hammer.
> > > >
> > > > Bonus points if it's not associated with Microsoft, and doesn't
> > > > require you to end code blocks with "end". :)
> > > >
> > > > Mike Kramlich
> > > > ZodLogic Games
> > > > http://zodlogic.webfactional.com
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