Typed Python?

[Michele Simionato]

François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message news:<mailman.51.1089157058.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> [Ville Vainio]
> >     >> (No, I'm not implying that Lisp is not being used for real [as
> >     >> in non-academic] work. It is, Scheme isn't).
>  
> >     Francois> I surely used Scheme for real contracts, [...]
>  
> > Really, when was this?
> 
> In my case, this was a few years ago, I never precisely remember dates.
> I know other people who do Scheme works for a living in these days.  I
> would feel a bit uncomfortable in their context, because this is all
> too much commercial for my own desires, and am not so money-oriented to
> fully dedicate myself in these projects that have no free aspects.
> 
> There is a kind of strange constant in what people tell me however.
> Scheme seems to be often used "under the cover", in that people deliver
> stand-alone solutions in which the real engine is not revealed, a bit
> like if Scheme was not far from being an industrial secret. :-)

It remembers me a friend of mine telling me a few months ago something
like
this: "Python or even Smalltalk are more used in the real world than
you expect, especially in the smartest firms, but they don't tell you
since they regard
it as a technological advantage".


         Michele Simionato