Pythonwin and .NET

[Maan M. Hamze]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
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> > But I don't think its going to be easy to do. To really play in the
> > .NET sandpit, a language must interface with other languages; this
> > means it must (in terms of its external interfaces) follow the CLS
> > (Common Language Specification). And this has been written for C#
> > which doesn't look a very similar language to python...
>
> To really play in the JVM sandpit, a language must interface with
> Java; this means it must (in terms of its external interfaces)
> follow the Java semantics.  And those are defined for Java, which
> doesn't look a very similar language to Python... but DOES look
> like a VERY, VERY close one to C#!-)
>
> Yet Jython flourishes.  So why not PythoNET (a name I'd find
> much preferable to the goofy "Python.NET", just like Jython
> was a vast improvement over the original name JPython)?
>
While I agree that PythoNET is much better and has more appeal than
Python.NET, why not:  Pythonette - it is more like the little sister Python
:)
Maan