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Re: [Jython-users] Jython 3?
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From: Bill M. <bil...@gm...> - 2023-07-25 13:57:24
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Dear Jeff (and others),</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I wanted to add my words of encouragement towards developing a Python 3.x version of Jython. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Your work, which provides the connection between the gentle, and user-friendly (programmer-friendly) Python syntax and great API, with the industrial-strength Java capabilities and API, makes all kinds of projects and work possible, that - chances are - you will never hear about. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I am the co-developer of JythonMusic, which I now see is included as one of the many projects made possible through your work on Jython.org. (JythonMusic is available at JythonMusic.org.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for your great work. Words cannot begin to describe the appreciation felt on this end. You have made more than a decade of productive and creative works possible, and this is just on our end. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This is to say that your work is being used in ways that you may never know. And is deeply appreciated. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best,</div><div dir="ltr">Bill</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Bill Manaris, Ph.D.</div><div>Professor, Computer Science</div><div>Director, Computing in the Arts</div><div>College of Charleston, USA</div><div>http://manaris.org</div><div>http://cita.cofc.edu</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 25, 2023, at 2:50 AM, Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <p>Thanks to all who have given their +1s to this. I'm genuinely heartened that others think this is still worthwhile.</p> <p>There is a lot of change to take on between Python 2.7 and any recent 3 (not just print()), but also it seemed the time to implement the core in a more modern way.</p> <p>There was a time when I just wanted to try these ideas in a corner, in case the ideas were all wrong. (I hate wasting others' time.) It looks like they aren't *all* wrong. At the moment I'm working to integrate a contributed compiler front-end (Python to AST) which endeavor I think will drive forward other parts of the core still missing.<br> </p> <p>Jeff Allen</p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/07/2023 13:32, John A. Hayes wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:D8B...@gm..."> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> I think the conclusion from all this mail-list activity is there is great interest in a Jython 3.X. Rather than just saying I’m another +1 (which is true), is there a short-list of things that need to be achieved to reach Python 3+ compatibility? <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">In my naive experience as a Python user, the most substantive difference between Python 2+ and Python 3+ was the transition between “print” being a statement in 2 and a function in 3 and that seems trivial. All the other changes were under the hood and not important from a user’s perspective.</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">If there are more corner cases, I’m happy to help,<br class=""> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">All the best, and I’m a super big fan of the project; it’s just a bit mysterious how any of us can help.</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">John<br class=""> <div><br class=""> <blockquote type="cite" class=""> <div class="">On Jul 15, 2023, at 1:31 AM, Liam Coughlin <<a href="mailto:lsc...@gm..." class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">lsc...@gm...</a>> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <div class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="">+2 for jython 3 - wait am I doing this right?<br class=""> </div> <br class=""> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 2:13 AM Jon R. Fox <<a href="mailto:drj...@gm..." class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">drj...@gm...</a>> wrote:<br class=""> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="">+1 for Jython 3.x</div> <div class="">I'm using Groovy for now.</div> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""> </div> </div> </div> _______________________________________________<br class=""> Jython-users mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:Jyt...@li..." target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">Jyt...@li...</a><br class=""> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users</a><br class=""> </blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________<br class=""> Jython-users mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:Jyt...@li..." class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">Jyt...@li...</a><br class=""> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users</a><br class=""> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br class=""> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________ Jython-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Jyt...@li...">Jyt...@li...</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Jeff Allen </pre> <span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Jython-users mailing list</span><br><span>Jyt...@li...</span><br><span>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-users</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html> |
