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I've been playing around with Py and I'm very impressed with David =
Cuny's work. IMHO this is a very serious project with much potential =
benefit. It may spur improvements in Euphoria, or it may evolve into a =
langauge in its own right, or it may do both. =20
The benchmark numbers are interesting but not too essential--if at some =
point Py becomes popular enough to justify the programming effort, it =
could be recoded in C--I expect that it's speed would then be very =
similar to Euphoria's.=20
I really like Py--try it out if you haven't already. On a somewhat =
related matter, earlier I took a moderate opposing position to the =
changes in comparison operators, etc. that David suggested. Having seen =
them in action in Py, I have changed my mind and now support this. I =
would also suggest some natural and non-ugly functions to use in palce =
of x=3D{1,2,3}<{4,1,5} or the like when a sequence rather than a boolean =
is desired:
eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge
(Borrowed from the early versions of FORTRAN--I haven't kept up with the =
langauge and it may well use comparison operators now for all I know.)
-- Mike Nelson
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<DIV>I've been playing around with Py and I'm <U>very</U> impressed with =
David=20
Cuny's work. IMHO this is a very serious project with much =
potential=20
benefit. It may spur improvements in Euphoria, or it may evolve =
into a=20
langauge in its own right, or it may do both. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The benchmark numbers are interesting but not too essential--if at =
some=20
point Py becomes popular enough to justify the programming effort, it =
could be=20
recoded in C--I expect that it's speed would then be very similar to =
Euphoria's.=20
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I really like Py--try it out if you haven't already. On a =
somewhat=20
related matter, earlier I took a moderate opposing position to the =
changes in=20
comparison operators, etc. that David suggested. Having seen them =
in=20
action in Py, I have changed my mind and now support this. I would =
also=20
suggest some natural and non-ugly functions to use in palce of=20
x=3D{1,2,3}<{4,1,5} or the like when a sequence rather than a boolean =
is=20
desired:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>(Borrowed from the early versions of FORTRAN--I haven't kept =
up with=20
the langauge and it may well use comparison operators now for all I =
know.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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