[jvm-l] Jython status (was: CommunityOne talk on JVM language implementers)

2008-04-21 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
Hi Charlie, Here is a state of Jython document. I'm afraid it is only in outline form at the moment -- but I thought you could use the information sooner than I will be able to get it into a clean state. Current State of Production Jython The production release of Jython is version 2.2.

[jvm-l] Re: Jython status (was: CommunityOne talk on JVM language implementers)

2008-04-21 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
Drat, forgot to include the GSOC student names: === under PSF === The Jython compiler by Tobias Ivarsson, mentored by James Edward Baker Improvement of Zope support on Jython by Georgy Berdyshev, mentored by Frank Joseph Wierzbicki Django on Jython: Supporting Python Web App Frameworks on the

[jvm-l] Re: CommunityOne talk on JVM language implementers

2008-04-21 Thread Rich Hickey
On Apr 18, 1:33 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been approved to do a talk at CommunityOne this year on how we all have been trying to bring JVM language implementers together. The general idea is to show that the sleeping giant of languages on the JVM is starting to

[jvm-l] Re: CommunityOne talk on JVM language implementers

2008-04-21 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Rich Hickey wrote: I'll be at JavaOne, but not in SF until late Monday. I'd be happy to do a writeup on the status of Clojure, and would love to meet with any other JVM language implementors at the show. Yes, please do... and I'd love to talk with all of you about your work and progress over

[jvm-l] Re: Fan Programing Language

2008-04-21 Thread hlovatt
I suggested a language extension to Java for just this problem: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6519124 That allowed keywords to be escaped by surrounding them with an underscore, e.g. the Java keyword class could be escaped via _class_. You could add a similar escape

[jvm-l] Re: Fan Programing Language

2008-04-21 Thread John Cowan
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:21 AM, hlovatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That allowed keywords to be escaped by surrounding them with an underscore, e.g. the Java keyword class could be escaped via _class_. And _class_ would be escaped as __class__, and so on? -- GMail doesn't have rotating