python and haskell for fun
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Tue Mar 12 04:45:25 EST 2002
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at acm.org> writes:
> I'd love to see Vyper go further; it's a neat approach to the
> "wouldn't it be neat to static type Python?" question.
Well, I'm half of the vyper developers on sf. I think the only
check-in I've made was to add a .cvsignore file.
> The thing that seemed particularly neat was the way it added in
> ML-style pattern matching.
>
> I have a feeling that what has happened isn't so much that people
> started farting in the author's general direction ("your mother smells
> like elderberries!"), but that it was a one man show, and that nobody
> really took interest in it.
I think what happened was that he got a job. I'm *interested* in it,
but I don't even have time to keep up with the bug reports against
Python <wink>.
> In effect, it may be just like most of the SourceForge projects that
> get started up by someone that thinks they have an idea, but who never
> get around to any usable degree of completion.
Vyper is usable, although I don't know whether it works with the
latest releases of ocaml. It just doesn't offer any real advantages
over CPython. It's also quite a bit slower.
If people want to pick it up, the code's there, and I'm sure John
could be persuaded to give you developer status...
Cheers,
M.
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