A 'Python like' language

[Peter Hickman]

Well after all this discussion it would appear that a 'Python like'
language has appeared => Prothon. http://www.prothon.org/index.html

Very alpha, sort of like Python (if you consider the indenting is what
makes Python unique) and sort of Ruby in its use of prefixes to define
scoping etc (although there is no reference to this trait being borrowed
from Ruby). It also quotes Self as being an influence.

[Stephen Horne]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:58:44 +0200, Gerrit <ge****@nl.linux.org>
wrote:

Mark Hahn wrote:

But everything in Prothon is subject to change until > 7/04.

Is that April the 7th or July the 4th?

You didn't spot the little clue? As in _why_ the 4th of July?

:-)
--
Steve Horne

steve at ninereeds dot fsnet dot co dot uk

[Jacek Generowicz]

"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.org> writes:

Goodbye.
Mark, Please _do_ take the hint that Terry is giving you. I would like
to read your posts, but your top-quoting style makes them so difficult
to decypher that I am finding it not worth my time and effort.
"Terry Reedy" <tj*****@udel.edu> wrote in message
news:ma**************************************@pyth on.org...

What is 'this'? Who is 'you'? Where is the original suggestion? What

did

who say what is fragile?

"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.org> wrote in message
news:1J8ac.68390$cx5.23284@fed1read04...

I need a better understanding of this. You are suggesting the self stay
with a function like a closure of sorts?

In my mind, anytime you say obj.func(), func is called on obj, no ifs

ands

or buts. How could it be otherwise? When would you want it otherwise?

You say fragile. What breaks?

Trying to read cryptic top-posted comments that require me to spend

minutes

trying to find the most like referent in order to make any sense is too
much work for me. I won't do it. Good bye.

Terry J. Reedy

[Glenn Andreas]

In article <ty*************@pcepsft001.cern.ch>,
Jacek Generowicz <ja**************@cern.ch> wrote:

"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.org> writes:

Goodbye.

Mark, Please _do_ take the hint that Terry is giving you. I would like
to read your posts, but your top-quoting style makes them so difficult
to decypher that I am finding it not worth my time and effort.

Basically, it comes down to "top posting is rude".

If you were talking with somebody and they were belching in your face,
you'd probably walk away.

Trying to hold a meaningful USENET "conversation" when somebody is top
posting is much the same - made extra bothersome because it might be an
interesting thread.

So certainly, if you want somebody else opinions/suggestions/help, being
rude to them doesn't encourage favorable reactions.

(This coming from another person who is interesting in Prothon but
becoming less so just because of pain of having to wade through
top-posting).

[Terry Reedy]

"Jacek Generowicz" <ja**************@cern.ch> wrote in message
news:ty*************@pcepsft001.cern.ch...

"Mark Hahn" <ma**@prothon.org> writes:

Goodbye.

Mark, Please _do_ take the hint that Terry is giving you. I would like
to read your posts, but your top-quoting style makes them so difficult
to decypher that I am finding it not worth my time and effort.

"Terry Reedy" <tj*****@udel.edu> wrote in message
news:ma**************************************@pyth on.org...

What is 'this'? Who is 'you'? Where is the original suggestion?

What did

who say what is fragile?

....

What's funny and sad about this is that I would not be surprised to
discover, after some experience, that prototypes fit my brain better than
the class model. Too bad he could not allow himself to see the satiric
humor of my hint.

Terry J. Reedy

[Anton Vredegoor]

Terry Reedy" <tj*****@udel.edu> wrote:

What's funny and sad about this is that I would not be surprised to
discover, after some experience, that prototypes fit my brain better than
the class model. Too bad he could not allow himself to see the satiric
humor of my hint.

Look at the bright side Terry :-) Last time he got irritated by
someone he wrote a completely new language and even apologized for his
behavior in the end!

Anton

[Courageous]

We really need in Python a clear separation of advanced features from
the basic syntax. No more lambda calculus in the basic part. :>)

Well I considered writing a pep to move all that stuff to a module
called __icky__, you know:

from __icky__ import *

.... but I didn't think the committee would go for it.

C///