[java-dev] Re: Announce: Python for MaxMSP (beta)

On 8 May 2008, at 20:18, Nathanaël Lécaudé wrote:
> I'm a bit surprised however when you say Python is "Basic" ?  We  
> coded full-fledged audio apps for the One Laptop Per Child project  
> using Python and it works quite well.

I like Python a lot, but by "basic" I meant that it's a simple  
language, with dynamic typechecking. (Take a look at Scala, then tell  
me that Python isn't simple...! Although I like Scala a lot, too, but  
for completely different application areas.)

> The one sad thing about jython is that it's currently based on an  
> old release of python and it lacks some pretty useful things like  
> generators.  I believe the jython team is working on adapting python  
> 2.5 though.

I'm pretty sure Jython has generators; I've not really been following  
how closely it's tracking CPython, since both the media software  
systems I'm working with at the moment have embedded Jython.

The fun will start with Python 3...

	-- N.


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