OCAMl a more natural extension language for python?

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Mon Jan 17 07:35:02 EST 2005


>>>>> "Jelle" == Jelle Feringa // EZCT / Paris <jelle.feringa at ezct.net> writes:

    Jelle> After reading about extending python with C/Fortran in the
    Jelle> excellent Python Scripting for Computational Science book
    Jelle> by Hans Langtangen, I'm wondering whether there's not a
    Jelle> more pythonic way of extending python. And frankly I think
    Jelle> there is: OCAML

For many tasks the point of "extending" python is to gain access to
libraries that have a C/C++ API. Extensions that merely provide a
faster way to do something are much rarer.

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