In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just found this: > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/popl/06/Tim-POPL.ppt >And thought of you... :-) > >called "The Next Mainstream Programming Languages", Tim Sweeney of Epic >Games presents on problems that game writers see and muses on possible >solutions. . . . 1. I liked this presentation more than I expected. I suspect my mistake is not to recognize adequately that POPL *does* have high standards. 2. To me, the closest existing models are Erlang and, of course, Lisp-the-universal-solution. 3. I remember a couple of earlier waves of effort in parallelism-savvy languages. Maybe this time we'll get it right. Stranger things have happened than for a Parallel Python to emerge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list