[plt-scheme] Re: Python Too Dynamic?

From: karczma at info.unicaen.fr (karczma at info.unicaen.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 29 17:35:34 EST 2004

Steven H. Rogers writes: 

> Has the effort to include Python as a language choice for DrScheme been 
> abandoned? 
> 
> Posts such as this:
> http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2004-January/004400.html
> indicate that it is a daunting task because of Python's extreme dynamism. 
> 
> The PyPy project (http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?home) is 
> implementing Python in Python.  Given the experience of those involved 
> with Python in DrScheme, is this task hopeless, or might it be the impetus 
> for Python to "grow up"?

Since I used/taught Scheme&Python, I would like to UNDERSTAND this
question... 

Does Steven suggest that one should seek for an amalgamate of the two
languages, or try to implement Python in Scheme, or what? 

Pyhon and Scheme are two different languages, based on different
philosophies. While I can understand (although I don't share, Matthias
will understand, nichts wahr?) the philosophy "Eine Sprache, eine Kirche",
I don't understand the motivation of people  interested in Scheme. 

Unless you *really* think that the future consists in making some stuff
adapted for the .NET platforms, and similar... 

Happy New Year.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk 




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