After reading about extending python with C/Fortran in the excellent Python Scripting for Computational Science book by Hans Langtangen, I'm wondering whether there's not a more pythonic way of extending python. And frankly I think there is: OCAML
Fortunately there is already a project up and running allowing you to extend python with OCAMl: http://pycaml.sourceforge.net/ Since I haven't got actual experience programming CAML I'd like to speculate that OCAML would be a very pythonic way of extending python: its open-source, object oriented, as fast as C, and ! garbage collecting! Would making an effort integrating python & CAML not be very worthwhile? I think an effort such as Joe Strouts python2c would be more relevant to a language as CAMl since its conceptually more closer to python (how could you automate programming memory allocation for instance) So my question is: wouldn't there be some serious synergy in bringing python & CAML closer together? ##of course this is speculation, I'm not informed well ##enough to make an educated guess Interested in hearing your thoughts about this matter! Cheers, Jelle. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
