of course, there could be bugs in python's gc. Of course (and this is the beauty of Free Software) we could fix them.

Manual memory management is a feature, not a bug.

No offense taken. But only because I'm smarter than you

it all comes down to using the right tool for the job. I think python would be a good option. Once there is a `correct'/feature-frozen implementation running, you/we(?) could speed up crucial parts in C.

my $cents = 2;

the first "publication" of python into public domain was in 1991 ,
so python is as old as linux !
i never really code in python before but after "reading" python code feels that python is a "very high higher-level language" supports garbage collection and very highly portable.Very easy on the bell and whisltes of modern OOP . You can even write COM,activeX/OLE very very easily ! You almost don't have to learn anything.The only awkward thing with python is it's a typeless language .
Java is just another buisness language , imitation of p-code and object-pascal with C/C++ syntex and feels like cobol .
It should be python and not Java and python is totally free.
All very modern application should try python first if possible and if it's not time-critical.
As for time-critical stuff , i rather choose ADA(again a language that i never code before but ever "read" it . Just my personal preference , so don't take it too seriously).

worng. It wasn't released into public domain, it was released under a Free license; see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more information on that distinction.

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that, of course, depends on how you write you code.
file("/dev/hda1", "w") probably isn't going to work on dos boxen.

I declare shenanagans! (sp?)
python has types. How could (2 + "foo") raise a TypeError if python doesn't have types.

What it doesn't have is _static_ types: python doesn't need to know the type of objects until runtime. And you don't have to write down the type names for everything. But python definitely has types.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=7590

why would anyone want to do that?

Don't worry -- I won't. The DoD likes it

--Jonas

I think for low level the best are C and assembler
and for high - C, C++, Java

For fun
Haskell, Erlang, Prolog, mathematics

yup ............. appreciate your interest and your post

........ agree with you , i would have knew that if python is my very first chosen programming language .........

wow , you are good . i did ever try a Haskell book but the moment i open the first page , i close it telling myself "maybe later , but not now..."




gosh.........we did hijack this thread like nobody-else buisness...huh..

XD yeah it seems so. Anybody actually interested into it? I also found a few python fans here and there willing to join in, but anyways. Just to add some info, I created a #specto channel in irc.freenode.net so people can contact each other more easily.

If you got some ideas of "potential issues" (mainly of refreshing website content) please write them down either here or in the wiki

Well, seeing as I'm having three months of summer vacation coming up in the pseudo-near future, I think I can afford to join. I'm quite skilled with the core of python, not so much with (any) libraries, and I'm not even done with my first year of school (that is, university). However, I've been programming for a grand total of 6 years, so I know good style from bad--most often on sight.

also, see http://jonaskoelker.homeunix.org/Me_Languages.html, and (if you care) my shitty blog in general.

bool (*signup) (struct Person*) = you -> signup_p;

--Jonas

c is too lower. python is too high. What about the middle? I said go with c++ ( gtkmm )......

lo , c++ itu gemuk sangat dong

Ok, this is great. I have experience with GTK+ ( gtkmm ). But I always want to work with somebody else. I think I m gonna learn python and pygtk.

Ok, kiddo, I will join this project. But maybe in two months later ( summer? ) because I m still busy with my personal project ( wallpapoz ).

Python is great. Dont worry about speed because we don't develop http server or daemon that need to handle 250000 request. We can embed C in python for critical part.

for alred:
c++ itu sangat indah

yup ...... nice to meet you , brother melinda_sayang