[News] AmigaOS 4.0 to include Python? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Nov-2002 20:36 GMT by Bill Hoggett | 94 comments View flat View list |
According to Irmen de Jong, the AmigaPython website maintainer, the Python programming language may be included as standard with AmigaOS 4.0.
From the AmigaPython site:
UPDATE november 2002: from very reliable sources I know that AmigaPython might become part of the new Amiga OS 4.0 ! What AREXX was for AmigaDOS 2.x and 3.x, AmigaPython might be for the next generation of Amiga OS (and much more powerful of course)
Further information about Python is available at the Python Home Page.
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Posted by Olaf Barthel on 27-Nov-2002 07:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 46 (Paul Hill): > Why not just port Regina? IIRC there is already a OS3.x port of Regina
> that can replace AREXX.
Last time I looked it is not completely compatible. Sure, the language
itself may be complete and the few extensions you'd find in ARexx may
be provided for, too, but there is one thing that does not lend itself
to emulation. That's the Rexx Variables Interface (RVI) which apparently
was added as an afterthought in the form of linkable object code (I still
have the ARexx 1.15 disk here somewhere). That code later migrated into
amiga.lib. What it does is to make certain assumptions about the way
the interpreter works and how it manages its variable bindings. And this
is far from trivial to emulate. It's this problem which so far prevented
a completely ARexx compatible interpreter from getting implemented (other
technical issues aside).
> If OS4 has a decent POSIX style interface Perl can be easily ported.
> Just make sure we have a decent fork() :-)
The more I know about Perl the more I find that it's pretty well-suited
for the environment it was originally created for: Unix and its relatives.
Try to port this to a non-POSIX system and you'll lose more functionality
than you'd really want to. Stability issues not included. |
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