[pypy-svn] rev 1819 - pypy/trunk/doc/funding

[pedronis at codespeak.net]

Author: pedronis
Date: Sun Oct 12 22:04:41 2003
New Revision: 1819

Added:
   pypy/trunk/doc/funding/alastair_abstract.asc
      - copied unchanged from rev 1814, pypy/trunk/doc/funding/alistair_abstract.asc
Removed:
   pypy/trunk/doc/funding/alistair_abstract.asc
Log:
oops.


Deleted: /pypy/trunk/doc/funding/alistair_abstract.asc
==============================================================================
--- /pypy/trunk/doc/funding/alistair_abstract.asc	Sun Oct 12 22:04:41 2003
+++ (empty file)
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-  Main goals
-
-    The main goal is to use innovative implementation techniques and
-    innovative development techniques to produce a better version of the
-    popular programming language Python. The new Python will maintain the
-    semantics of the current implementation but will have the following
-    benefits: it will be more easily customised and extended, it will be
-    more portable, it is expected to be more efficient, and it will cover
-    more programming paradigms in a way that respects the simplicity of the
-    underlying language. In addition, the project will document and refine
-    the existing open source development model in the Python
-    community. Although targetted principally at Python, most of the
-    techniques will also be applicable to other high level languages.
-
-  The approach
-
-    The project will achieve its goals principally by building on the
-    strengths of the current open source developer community. In
-    particular, it will potentiate existing volunteer initiatives that are
-    working on novel implementation techniques, working within the current
-    informal framework of design consultation, open source code
-    repositories and periodic coding workshops. The project will connect
-    this developer community with relevant experts in academia. It will
-    also make use of the existing non-profit organisation of Python firms
-    to bind end users into the design and trialling of the extended Python
-    implementation. Technically, the project will refine and implement an
-    innovative approach to language implementation, based on object spaces,
-    that allows implementation techniques to be integrated in a modular
-    way.
-
-  Concrete results
-
-    Much anecdotal, and some empirical, evidence suggests that Python is
-    one of the easiest programming languages to learn and is one of the
-    languages in which one can code up a given algorithm the fastest. For
-    these reasons, it is particularly popular among those people whose main
-    competence lies beyond computer science and for whom programming is a
-    secondary activity, that is to say most of the people on the
-    planet. The goal of this project is to enable even more people to
-    program in Python and ensure that more people will never need to learn
-    any other language than Python. They will, instead, be able to
-    concentrate on getting their job done.