REPOST: Re: Python and Ruby: a comparison

[Alex Martelli]

"Yitz" <bmcyitz at freebox.com> wrote in message
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> "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
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>
> > Much as I might prefer "C# with templates" or whatever, therefore, I'm
> > quite liable to choose "Managed C++" today if tasked to develop some
> > largish subsystem in and for .NET (given that no "Python .NET" is at
> > hand: Python programming, as it hinges on signature based polymorphism,
> > just like templates, gives similar productivity advantages to templates
> > in even smoother and more general ways, of course).
>
> See http://www.activestate.com/Initiatives/NET/Research.html for
> a preliminary "Python .NET" - it already exists.

It is a finished experimental project, not something anybody would
choose "to develop some largish subsystem in and for .NET".


Alex