[pypy-dev] Hi all. I am Looking for a project idea.

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi Laura!

Laura Creighton wrote:
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> Whether modifying pypy makes sense depends a lot on what sort of
> language you would like to generate.  PyPy was designed for dynamic
> langauges -- so a functional one, while not impossible, may not be the
> best fit.

Just about this particular point: I am not sure that functional 
languages per se are a bad fit for PyPy. On the one hand there are 
functional languages such as Erlang that are dynamically typed 
("dynamic" and "functional" are really orthogonal properties). On the 
other hand the implementation of some functional languages uses the 
staticness of the type system mostly "on the outside" to report to the 
user and not "on the inside" to actually implement the language. I guess 
this is especially true for an interpreter of a functional language. I 
might be totally misinformed there, though.

[snip]

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich