> > I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Plus, me getting paid to work on Flaming Thunder is far more > > motivating than me not getting paid to work on Python.
> On May 14, 8:30 pm, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's truly disappointing. I guess I could have stated that better. Flaming Thunder is a labor of love for me. I've programmed in almost every language since FORTRAN and Lisp, and Flaming Thunder is the language I've always wished the others were. For one example, I've always preferred compiled languages because they're faster. So Flaming Thunder is compiled. For another example, I've always preferred languages that are English- like because it's easier to return to your code after several years and still know what you were doing (and it's easier for someone else to maintain your code). For over 5 years I've been working on Flaming Thunder unpaid and on my own, getting the back-end up and running. 8-by-8 shotgun cross compilers written in assembly language, that can fit all of the libraries for both the 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows into a single executable file that's less than 180K, aren't written overnight. So now that I've released it, it's extremely gratifying that people think it's cool enough to actually pay $19 for it. That gives me lots of motivation (and buys enough time) for me to add features to it as fast as possible. To whit: you pointed out the awkwardness in Python of having to declare a for-loop variable when you only wanted to loop a specific number of times and didn't need the variable. Last week, Flaming Thunder had the same awkwardness. If you wanted to loop 8 times: for i from 1 to 8 do <statement> you still had to use a variable (in this case, i). This week, I've added two new for-loop variations that fix that awkwardness, and also allow you to explicitly declare an infinite loop without having to rely on idiomatic constructs such as while-true. Examples of the two new variations (for-forever and for-expression-times): Write "Fa". For 8 times do write "-la". For forever do ( Write "Do you know the definition of insanity? ". Read response. ). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
