[python] Boo

[Andrew Yochum]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> 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.

Awesome.  Have you used IronPython?  Is moving python code to it 
trivial or even perfectly seamless?  It appeals to me as an interesting 
method for .NET integration should the need arise.  I'm blown away by 
their claim of "up to 1.7x faster than Python-2.3".

Got a link for Python.NET? I can't seem to find anything.  But if I'm 
following what  you've suggested, that sounds nifty, but I'm not sure 
how the cross runtimes bindings would happen.  Seems like it could be 
messy.

> 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.

I can understand that, especially with the alternatives listed above.

Andrew