[Chicago] Jython

[kirby urner]

Woulda been someone else besides Guido as he knows me and I came to
Python through Java and APL, with a little Scheme, way more xBase.
Not dissing $Perl in any way, bless it.

Hey, on this topic of Jython, it's like Python on top of an already
well-stocked winery, as the JFC is a truly rich environment.  Take
probable primes.  For RSA encryption you want these gigantic
composites with two prime factors so where do you get those primes to
begin with?  Well, Java has had those for awhile, so maybe your write
something in Python just around this little feature, to cough up
through a generator or something.

Of course none of this is news to a lot of you.  The other news I
guess was how Sun was putting some real focus on the project, in
addition to MySQL, and that Django runs on Jython pretty well so if
you have favorite Java tricks you'd like to keep doing (custom code in
the back office someplace) maybe this is your ticket?

Kirby


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Feihong Hsu <hsu.feihong at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you went to school for computer science between 1998-ish to 2002-ish,
> then you likely picked up Java as one of your first programming languages,
> as many college CS departments switched from Scheme or C/C++ to Java. This
> effort received a lot of support from the textbook industry, who were eager
> to sell more overpriced textbooks.
>
> When I ate dinner with Guido, he or someone else at the table made the
> observation that all the Python programmers he knew had at one time
> programmed in Perl.
>
> --- On Fri, 4/17/09, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
>
> From: Martin Maney <maney at two14.net>
> Subject: Re: [Chicago] Jython
> To: "The Chicago Python Users Group" <chicago at python.org>
> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 5:14 PM
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:31:27PM -0500, Robert Spelich wrote:
>> I do get the impression, perhaps I am wrong, that a lot of Python
>> developers
>> also know Java or learned Java first. Is that a correct assessment?
>
> I'd guess not, but I may all wrong, as I'm one who never has cared for
> Java.  FWIW, the language I'd learned immediately prior to diving into
> Python was PHP.  I refer to that as my lost year. :-(
>
> --
> Q: What do you get when programmers design a language
>    while trying to get something else done?
> A: PHP  -- Jeremy H. Brown
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