John Lee <j...@pobox.com> writes: > In this thread, I'm asking about the views of Python programmers on > languages other than Python.
I sympathize with what you're looking for but I don't think there's a really good answer at this time. Things IMO are converging in the direction of functional languages like Haskell but it seems to me that there is a big gap between the current academic ideas and what makes sense for working programmers. The academics aren't all that concerned with practicality, but good solutions really have to incorporate their ideas since the rest of us are rather badly behind the times. Haskell probably has the most vibrant development community at the moment but its learning curve is quite steep, and it has various shortcomings some of which are being worked on but others of which may be insurmountable. If you like the Java ecosystem but not the Java language, check out Scala. You could look for the article "The Next Mainstream Programming Languages" by Tim Sweeney. It discusses similar issues to what I think you are facing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
