Python and Flaming Thunder

[Charles Hixson]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 13:30:07 Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> ...
> >From Armstrong's book: The expression Pattern = Expression causes
>
> Expression to be evaluated and the result matched against Pattern. The
> match either succeeds or fails. If the match succeeds any variables
> occurring in Pattern become bound.
>
> It is a very powerful idea and one which (along with the concurrency
> and message passing from Erlang) has been implemented for python :-
>
>   http://candygram.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've been reading the Erlang book and I have to say it has given me a
> lot of insight into python...

Although when comparing Candygram with Erlang it's worth noting that Candygram 
is bound to one processor, where Erlang can operate on multiple processors.  
(I'd been planning on using Candygram for a project at one point, but this 
made it unusable.)