Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 08/02/2008, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > >>> > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would > >>> > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. > > > > Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but what does Cobra have to do > > with

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Holden
Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >>> > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would >>> > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. > > Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but what does Cobra have to do > with Microsoft? > (Apart from being .NET oriented.) It seems it's an open so

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 08/02/2008, Guilherme Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would > > > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. > > > > Looks like MS forgot E and E and went straight for E this time. > > I couldn't understand what you said, m

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would > > > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but what does Cobra have to do with Microsoft? (Apart from being .NET oriented.) It seems it's an open source project of a guy who doesn't

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread Guilherme Polo
2008/2/7, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 08/02/2008, Peter Dilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would > > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. > > > Looks like MS forgot E and E and went straight for E this time. > I coul

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 08/02/2008, Peter Dilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not, however, an in depth language nutter, so would > appreciate any of our more learned readers comments. Looks like MS forgot E and E and went straight for E this time. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-

Re: Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread José Antonio Salazar Montenegro
All the touted features and the integration with .Net and the friendly Visual Studio IDE will make it a fearsome adversary. And the name clearly suggests where it intends to harvest converts. Interesting times ahead. On 02/07/2008 06:07 PM, Peter Dilley wrote: Looks like Microsoft has a langu

Microsoft's challenger to Python

2008-02-07 Thread Peter Dilley
Looks like Microsoft has a language aimed at taking all of Pythons strengths and attacking its weaknesses. Quoted as a compiled language that has optional dynamic binding. I've just started investigating the web site, but this is looking to shape up to a rather decent challenge to Python for an