Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-15 Thread Jack Keegan
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide wrote: > > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. > > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about > Python > > at Google ;) ? > > > > Also,

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:59:39 -0800, DevPlayer wrote: > What I don't get is, having seen Python's syntax with indentation > instead of open and closing puncuation and other -readability- > structures in Python's syntax, is if someone is going to invent any new > language, how could they NOT take Py

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-14 Thread Dominic Binks
I believe Occam had a visual structure and was compiled. In fact it was even more picky than Python in this respect IIRC. On 11/14/2011 4:28 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, DevPlayer wrote: What I don't get is, having seen Python's syntax with indentation instead

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, DevPlayer wrote: > What I don't get is, having seen Python's syntax with indentation > instead of open and closing puncuation and other -readability- > structures in Python's syntax, is if someone is going to invent any > new language, how could they NOT take Pyth

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-14 Thread DevPlayer
What I don't get is, having seen Python's syntax with indentation instead of open and closing puncuation and other -readability- structures in Python's syntax, is if someone is going to invent any new language, how could they NOT take Python's visual structures (read as readability) and copy it, wh

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-15 Thread 88888 dihedral
The undetected recursive call loop in some states that can be hacked or would hang and crush! Every program has to be run in a VM is just one solution but that will slow down a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-15 Thread geremy condra
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:49 PM, alex23 wrote: > On Oct 13, 8:07 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Python, as I found out to my detriment, is practically impossible to >> sandbox effectively. > > The latest version of PyPy introduces a prototype sandbox: > > http://pypy.org/features.html#sandboxing >

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-15 Thread 88888 dihedral
Conversion utilities are used to ease the burdens for programmers to translate source scripts and codes into different languages or even the same language with revisions. Check for translators for C, C++, PASCAL, BASIC, and FORTRAN and also SWIG, PYREX, CYTHON, JYTHON and etc.. -- ht

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-14 Thread alex23
On Oct 13, 8:07 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > Python, as I found out to my detriment, is practically impossible to > sandbox effectively. The latest version of PyPy introduces a prototype sandbox: http://pypy.org/features.html#sandboxing It'll be interesting to see how effective this is. -- http

RE: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-14 Thread Prasad, Ramit
>As long as there are tools to translate scripts or source code between the two >languages. More new evolved powerful programming >languages arenot problems >at all for experienced programmers. More often than not, these conversion utilities are a source of terrible code. They are good for get

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread 88888 dihedral
As long as there are tools to translate scripts or source code between the two languages. More new evolved powerful programming languages arenot problems at all for experienced programmers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:38 AM, BartC wrote: > The entire resources of Google available, and they re-invent C! Syntactically, C has a lot going for it. If you want to invent a new language and have developers grok it easily, borrowing syntax from C will help a lot. But in this case, I think the

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread BartC
"candide" wrote in message news:4e96b324$0$1007$426a3...@news.free.fr... Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python at Google ;) ? The entire resources of Google available, and they re-

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Westley Martínez
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:07:09PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide wrote: > > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. > > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python > > at Google ;) ? > > > >

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Westley Martínez
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:45:06AM +0200, candide wrote: > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know > about Python at Google ;) ? Google's a big supporter for Python...I think Guido working being employ

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Alain Ketterlin
Chris Angelico writes: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide wrote: >> Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. >> So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python >> at Google ;) ? > > Python, as I found out to my detriment, is prac

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Duncan Booth
candide wrote: > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about > Python at Google ;) ? I take it you haven't actually looked at the Dart tools then? They're largely written in Python. -- Duncan B

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide wrote: >> Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. >> So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python >> at Google ;) ? >> > > Python, as I

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Terry Reedy
On 10/13/2011 6:07 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide wrote: Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python at Google ;) ? Python, as I found out to my detrime

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide wrote: > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python > at Google ;) ? > Python, as I found out to my detriment, is practically impossible to sandbox e

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread Andreas Neudecker
Am 13.10.2011 11:45, schrieb candide: > Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. > So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about > Python at Google ;) ? What needs to be done to make Python replace JS in Browsers/HTML? (or at least make it a vi

Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-10-13 Thread candide
Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript. So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python at Google ;) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list