[pypy-svn] rev 1604 - pypy/trunk/doc/funding_retarget

[ale at codespeak.net]

Author: ale
Date: Tue Oct  7 14:31:02 2003
New Revision: 1604

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   pypy/trunk/doc/funding_retarget/abstract.txt
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--- pypy/trunk/doc/funding_retarget/abstract.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/trunk/doc/funding_retarget/abstract.txt	Tue Oct  7 14:31:02 2003
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-     This proposal directly addresses the Strategic Objective
-     IST-2002-2.3.2.3 - 'Open development platforms for software and
-     services' of the Second Call of the Information Society
-     Technologies Workprogramme.
-
-     The PyPy project will build a flexible, modular, context-aware,
-     self-hosting Just-In-Time (JIT) specialising compiler for Python.
-     Python is a portable, interpreted, object-oriented, Free/Open
-     Source Very-High Level Language (VHLL).  The most recent version
-     of the language is Python 2.3.1, released under the Python
-     Software Foundation License, approved by both the Open Source
-     Initiative, and the Free Software Foundation.
-
-     Creating a new vesion will take advantage of the known European
-     strengths in formal methods and languages (Python was first
-     developed in 1990 at CWI, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica,
-     in the Netherlands.)  It will go beyond the state of the Art in
-     computer languages, and produce a runtime system which is much
-     better suited for the development and deployment of networked,
-     embedded, and mobile devices. 
-
-     Considerable effort will be made to disseminate this knowledge,
-     among academics, SMEs, Industrial users, and through our Open
-     website and mailing lists, any interested person.  This will
-     ensure that the project will be fully exploited upon completion.
-
-     As foundational applied research, focusing on fundamental design
-     concepts, there will be significant indirect effects wherever the
-     Python programming langauge is taught or deployed.  Python is
-     widely used as a 'first programming language' and has been very
-     successful among non-programmers, particularily women.  The
-     success of Python can therefore have a limited effect in
-     promoting social cohesion and gender equality. 
+     This proposal directly addresses the Strategic Objective
+     IST-2002-2.3.2.3 - 'Open development platforms for software and
+     services' of the Second Call of the Information Society
+     Technologies Workprogramme.
+	
+	
+     The PyPy project will build a flexible, modular, context-aware,
+     self-hosting programming platform. The goal is to finally deliver on
+     the promises of Very-High Level Languages (VHLL) to produce significant 
+     productivity gains to the software industry.
+
+     To fullfill this ambitious goal, the innovative concept of ObjectSpaces
+     will be a key technology. ObjectSpaces are high level formulations of
+     the parts that make a language interpreter work (compiler, object library,
+     main loop). The separation will enable modularity and flexibility of the
+     interpreter. As the ObjectSpaces themselves are written in a VHLL it is
+     possible to make ObjectSpaces specializing for execution speed, memory 
+     consumption, target processors etc.
+      
+     PyPy will be portable, interpreted, object-oriented, Free/Open
+     Source Very-High Level Language, with a wide range of applications.  
+
+     Creating PyPy will take advantage of the known European strengths 
+     in formal methods and languages. It will go beyond the state of the Art
+     in computer languages, and produce a runtime system which is much
+     better suited for the development and deployment of networked,
+     embedded, and mobile devices. 
+
+     Considerable effort will be made to disseminate this knowledge,among 
+     academics, SMEs, Industrial users, and through our Open website and 
+     mailing lists, any interested person.  This will ensure that the project
+     will be fully exploited upon completion.
+     
+     The target language for PyPy has been choosen to be Python (a portable, 
+     Open Source language was first developed in 1990 at CWI, Centrum voor 
+     Wiskunde en Informatica, in the Netherlands.) The most recent version of 
+     Python is Python 2.3.2 released under the Python Software Foundation 
+     License, approved by both the Open Source Initiative, and the Free 
+     Software Foundation.
+     
+     As foundational applied research, focusing on fundamental design
+     concepts, there will be significant indirect effects wherever the
+     Python programming langauge is taught or deployed.  Python is
+     widely used as a 'first programming language' and has been very
+     successful among non-programmers, particularily women.  The
+     success of Python can therefore have a limited effect in
+     promoting social cohesion and gender equality. 
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