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Ed Keith <e_d_k <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)? It seems to have a lot
> of what you are looking for.

I'm more interested in other people's opinions than my own "looking for"s.

What *should* I be looking for (other than Python itself)?  What's interesting, 
widely applicable, and new(ish)?

Falcon fails my personal book-by-its-cover test.  There are too many languages
to do without that test, unfortunately.


John