Vadim, I think Python is a great language. I admire it. I have met Guido and been to PyCon before. I think Python gained a lot of value by learning from and imitating Lisp and Icon. I think Python has some fatal flaws -- I won't use a language with indentation-based syntax, and the whole Python 3 incompatibility with Python 2 is sad -- but Python's success speaks for itself.
I think you would have to learn Icon or Unicon reasonably well to understand how wimpy and broken Python's generators are compared with Icon/Unicon. Goal-directed evaluation changes how generators are used, and increases their leverage, but only after you "get it". Cheers, Clint On 1/26/12, Вадим Тукаев <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably, the fate of a Unicon in helping with a fast'n'dirty writing of > primitive utilities, especially with GUI. What advantages have the Unicon on > comparison with the Python? There is an impression that all possibilities of > the Unicon exist in the Python, but not all possibilities of the Python are > exist in the Unicon. It is very important to me to know, whether there is a > sense in studying of the Unicon if I was going to study the Python in the > near future. Perhaps, studying of the Unicon will simplify studying of the > Python? > > 26 января 2012, 12:05 от Clinton Jeffery <[email protected]>: >> Did Jcon feature a Java-calling interface for interoperability? If it has >> that, I am not aware of it. >> >> The current Unicon implementation is based on its modified iconx >> C-language >> VM and runtime system and is not especially Java friendly. We hope to >> improve its C-calling interface this year. >> >> I would be curious as to how many Unicon users wish they had a Java or >> .Net >> implementation and Java-calling or C#-calling interface. >> >> Cheers, >> Clint >> >> 2012/1/25 Вадим Тукаев <[email protected]> >> >> > Whether probably to use Unicon together with Java, as Jcon was used? >> > Than >> > the Unicon can be useful to the Java-programmer? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Unicon-group mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group >> > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
