Re: Abandoning Python

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Abandoning Python
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Date	2011-05-24 21:45 -0700
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John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> writes:
> In this thread, I'm asking about the views of Python programmers on
> languages other than Python.  

I sympathize with what you're looking for but I don't think there's
a really good answer at this time.  Things IMO are converging in the
direction of functional languages like Haskell but it seems to
me that there is a big gap between the current academic ideas and
what makes sense for working programmers.  The academics aren't
all that concerned with practicality, but good solutions really
have to incorporate their ideas since the rest of us are rather
badly behind the times.

Haskell probably has the most vibrant development community at
the moment but its learning curve is quite steep, and it has
various shortcomings some of which are being worked on but others
of which may be insurmountable.

If you like the Java ecosystem but not the Java language, check
out Scala.

You could look for the article "The Next Mainstream Programming
Languages" by Tim Sweeney.  It discusses similar issues to what I
think you are facing.

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Abandoning Python John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-21 16:49 +0100
  Re: Abandoning Python John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-05-21 11:00 -0500
  Re: Abandoning Python Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 12:25 +1100
    Re: Abandoning Python John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 16:58 +0100
      Re: Abandoning Python Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-05-22 19:55 +0200
      Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 18:26 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 12:27 +1100
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 17:11 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 17:33 +0000
    Re: Abandoning Python Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-24 21:45 -0700
      Re: Abandoning Python harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-27 09:34 -0500
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 21:01 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python John Lee <jjl@pobox.com> - 2011-05-22 21:19 +0000
  Re: Abandoning Python Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 10:16 +1100
  Re: Abandoning Python Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2011-05-23 11:45 +0100

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