Python rocks

[Alex Martelli]

Mark Carter <me at privacy.net> wrote:

> I picked Chicken Scheme for OS X. Things started well, and even the web
   ...
> that; but I found that it ultimately depended on gmp, which turned out a
> pain to compile.

Yes, GMP is a pain to compile (especially on Mac OS X), but I believe
that the Universal Binary library version I've put among the gmpy
downloads (see http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/downloads/list) works fine
(at least it seems to work fine for gmpy, which is my Python extension
that wraps GMP, and gmpy exposes and copiously unit-tests essentially
all of GMP's functionality).

Just mentioning this in case you want to give Scheme another chance
(which it may well deserve, although closures are hardly unique to it; I
wonder if you meant continuations).  Python may enjoy better tools and
libraries than Scheme, but then Java enjoys better ones yet, yet I
prefer to stick with Python because I like it better *as a language*...


Alex