Clojure is definitely something that I would like to play with extensively. Looks very promising from the outset, so the only question that I have is how does it feel when used for substantial things.
Thanks, Roman. P.S. My belief in it was actually reaffirmed by a raving endorsement it got from an old LISP community. Those guys are a bit like 9fans, if you know what I mean ;-) On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:38 -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:11:10 PST "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <r...@sun.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:19 -0800, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > > My knowledge on this subject is about 8 or 9 years old, so check with > > > your > > local Python guru.... > > > > > > > > > The last I'd heard about Python's threading is that it was cooperative > > > only, and that you couldn't get real parallelism out of it. It serves > > > as a means to organize your program in a concurrent manner. > > > > > > > > > In other words no two threads run at the same time in Python, even if > > > you're on a multi-core system, due to something they call a "Global > > > Interpreter Lock". > > > > I believe GIL is as present in Python nowadays as ever. On a related > > note: does anybody know any sane interpreted languages with a decent > > threading model to go along? Stackless python is the only thing that > > I'm familiar with in that department. > > Depend on what you mean by "sane interpreted language with a > decent threading model" and what you want to do with it but > check out www.clojure.org. Then there is Erlang. Its > wikipedia entry has this to say: > Although Erlang was designed to fill a niche and has > remained an obscure language for most of its existence, > it is experiencing a rapid increase in popularity due to > increased demand for concurrent services, inferior models > of concurrency in most mainstream programming languages, > and its substantial libraries and documentation.[7][8] > Well-known applications include Amazon SimpleDB,[9] > Yahoo! Delicious,[10] and the Facebook Chat system.[11] >
