>>Hi Hank,
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>>>It's a mess for dynamic programmers. As per my latest blog post, multi-company support for the development of a 3rd-party language (e.g., Boo, or Cobra, or VFP.Net if that were an option) is probably the best solution. Depending on oneself (and others in the same boat) promises more stability than being held hostage by Microsoft's lawyers and middle managers.
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>>I will keep working with IPy for the moment - and have Boo and Node.Js on my radar (Scala et al. not really checked for active participation). CPython is being developed, and IPy and Jython as well as Jype give me hooks in the big runtimes, so my interpreter/dynamic needs are covered from that side. Javascript (while it is an ugly language compared to Python, Node.Js is very active and interesting) is my last resort fallback - as I came to fox first as an add-on to C and Modula2 I guess I will be able to host dynamic parts if push comes to shove. The "glueing" aspect of PYthon from Shell scripts to mathmatical libraries is one of the aspects I like a lot, even results are not always as finished as "write everything again".
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>>my 0.003 EUR
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>>thomas
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>Stop it ;-) I am barely clinging to new technology as it is and now someone I respect (you and Hank) hits me with many more --
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>iPy
>Boo
>Node Js
>Scala
>CPython
>Jython
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>It's bewildering sometimes. I try to keep up, I really do, but this is all Greek to me. Even the names (I refer to Boo) seem intended to make me feel like an old fart who is out of it. Maybe it's time to apply for that crossing guard job ;-)
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>Modern music gives me the same feeling. Who are these people and what the heck are they doing? In my book if you don't play an instrument and don't sing you aren't a musician. Passe, I guess. Maybe I really am an old fart.

No fart like an old fart. ;)

The inmates are still running the asylum.