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Subject: Re: [9fans] Serving 9p in python - anyone started that?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:46:47 GMT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:19:21 -0500
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Scott writes:
> What sort of thread support does python have?  It would be great to see
> it with limbo-style concurrency constructs.

And Matt responds:
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-thread.html
>
> [...]

So it's the standard co-routine style.  I think that Scott is looking
for is something with a more CSP-like feel, like Limbo.  Stackless
python is doing this, which sounds pretty sweet, but I think that
python is getting a little heavy around the waste.  At least, the
standard distribution is; some objects are marked deprecated and such,
and flag errors at runtime when invoked in the interactive environment,
but not when run as a script, etc....  Still, I like the language.
Ruby is another nice language in a similar vein that I like a lot.

	- Dan C.