Re: [ooc-compiler] Dead or just comatose?

[Peter F. <ph...@ac...>]

Hi all,

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Stewart Greenhill
<sgr...@ii...> wrote:
> It looks like there is quite a trend these days towards interpreted,
> dynamically typed code especially for things like web frameworks, which
> is where my interest in Python comes from. It looks like there is a
> great community and lots of libraries available. For some applications
> this can dramatically reduce development time which is a big point in
> its favour. However, I'm not a great fan of dynamic typing. It means
> that many bugs are not detected until run-time, and therefore requires a
> lot more testing to verify code. Also, the lack of defined return types
> makes APIs very hard to navigate.

You may want to take a look at Google's Go language at golang.org
because it has some of the niceties of Python and friends combined
with solid Oberon (and even Lagoona :-D) roots, albeit hidden behind a
C-like syntax of dubious attractiveness. I've played with it a bit
last year and had a lot of fun. Still intend to do more with it later
this year. And oh, it's statically typed and compiled, they even
target embedded development to some extent.

Cheers,
Peter
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Peter H. Froehlich <http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~phf/>
Senior Lecturer | Director, Johns Hopkins Gaming Lab