ANN: YAPDL

[Tim Daneliuk]

                  TundraWare Inc. Press Announcement
                       For Immediate Release
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Announcing:  Yet Another Python Derived Language (YAPDL)
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Since it has been almost a whole week since someone has proposed
another "Python Like" language, TundraWare Inc. is pleased to do
its part in announcing its very serious intention to consider the
possibility of perhaps, maybe, someday, creating and releasing
"Yet Another Python Derived Language" (YAPDL).

Major YAPDL Benefits Include:

- Very similar to Python in most ways, but with a strong emphasis
   on obscure academic purist notions that no one really cares about.

- A vehicle for promoting interminable length discussions about
   said obscure notions on Internet newsgroups and IRC chatrooms.

- A means of chasing Microsoft's .NET flavor-of-the-moment
   thereby further increasing the complexity of an already
   out-of-control development environment.

- An opportunity for third-parties to spend inordinate amounts
   of time and effort to retrofit the Python library onto YAPDL.

- A springboard for the further dead-horse-beatings of:

       a) Microsoft The Evil Empire
       b) What I miss about LISP/Haskel/Oberon/Assembler
       c) Why we need explicit block delimiters

- A mechanism for further diluting the mindshare and resources
   available to improve, use, and promote, Python itself.


TundraWare Inc.'s President, Tim Daneliuk, is quoted as saying,

     Contrary to some of the rumblings we've already heard, the
     YAPDL project was not commissioned or funded by Sun as a
     stealth JAVA promotion activity.  We at TundraWare have taken
     this upon ourselves to insure that the Python community remains
     fractionalized, confusing, and intimidating to our corporate
     clients, thereby improving our chances of getting more billable
     hours.

For more information, please contact the TundraWare Inc.
press liaison:

     U.R. Kidding-Me
     blackhole at tundraware.com






Old-And-Grumpy-ly Yours,
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Tim Daneliuk     tundra at tundraware.com
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