[python] Boo

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Andrew Yochum wrote:

> Seeing how well trafficked this list is, this may fall on deaf ears, 
> but
> thought I'd pass it along anyway.
>
> Boo is a new language for the .NET framework that is heavily inspired 
> by
> Python.  Sounds cool to me.  I'd give it a shot if I ever were forced 
> to
> do .NET stuff.
>
>     http://boo.codehaus.org/

There's also IronPython, which is actually Python and is sponsored by 
Microsoft.  And Python.NET which allows you to integrate the existing 
CPython runtime with .NET.  And, of course, any JVM-over-CLR will let 
you use Jython on .NET.

Boo annoys me because the syntax is very close to Python, but not in 
some important ways (like docstring indentation), so you have to 
perform all kinds of trivial but annoying reformatting in order to run 
Boo code on Python or vice versa.

-bob