[pypy-svn] rev 1594 - pypy/trunk/doc/funding

[lac at codespeak.net]

Author: lac
Date: Mon Oct  6 08:54:16 2003
New Revision: 1594

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   pypy/trunk/doc/funding/abstract.txt
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and see if this is what you want us to say.


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+     This proposal directly addresses the Strategic Objective
+     IST-2002-2.3.2.3 - 'Open development platforms for software and
+     services' of the Second Call of the Information Society
+     Technologies Workprogramme.
+
+     The PyPy project will build a flexible, modular, context-aware,
+     self-hosting Just-In-Time (JIT) specialising compiler for Python.
+     Python is a portable, interpreted, object-oriented, Free/Open
+     Source Very-High Level Language (VHLL).  The most recent version
+     of the language is Python 2.3.1, released under the Python
+     Software Foundation License, approved by both the Open Source
+     Initiative, and the Free Software Foundation.
+
+     Creating a new vesion will take advantage of the known European
+     strengths in formal methods and languages (Python was first
+     developed in 1990 at CWI, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica,
+     in the Netherlands.)  It will go beyond the state of the Art in
+     computer languages, and produce a runtime system which is much
+     better suited for the development and deployment of networked,
+     embedded, and mobile devices. 
+
+     Considerable effort will be made to disseminate this knowledge,
+     among academics, SMEs, Industrial users, and through our Open
+     website and mailing lists, any interested person.  This will
+     ensure that the project will be fully exploited upon completion.
+
+     As foundational applied research, focusing on fundamental design
+     concepts, there will be significant indirect effects wherever the
+     Python programming langauge is taught or deployed.  Python is
+     widely used as a 'first programming language' and has been very
+     successful among non-programmers, particularily women.  The
+     success of Python can therefore have a limited effect in
+     promoting social cohesion and gender equality.