new python

Interesting starting point. I myself, as I began learning python, got
the feeling that there should be a python 2, cleaning up the rough edges
and missing features and keywords. Hope, prothon will come close to my
ideas :)

I am currently programming a server/client-solution. Every time I have
to fiddle around with parallel processes, timeouts, blocking vs.
non-blocking and so on, I wished a language that has threading and 4th
dimension implemented into the objects. I didn't read all the info about
prothon yet but found a note about multithreading being a main scope of
the interpreter. So, I'll concentrate on the 4th dimension.

I find that programming languages are not aware of the existence of a
fourth dimension. They offer simple routines like time.time() or even a
small sceduler. But, dealing with time in a more complex fashion is not
possible straight away. Most programming languages provide function
calls like select. however, even select is only functional to some
degree. It can wait for already established connections but it cannot
wait for a connection being established. If I deal with FIFO's, for
example, the opening of the FIFO blocks the whole program untill another
process connects to the other end of the FIFO. The select function
doesn't help me in this case because it first acts after the both
processes are already connected. This is one of those examples where
programmers must decide between blocking and waiting or non-blocking and
driving circles with a while procedure or the like.

I think, having a combination of timer and sceduler chained to every
type, object and function/class/method can make a great deal. One could
create scedulers, waiting calls, checking routines, queues,
synchronizers etc. without fiddling with special function calls, modules
and missing functionality here and there and for this and that.

What do you think about implementing the 4th dimension into the objects
and types?

Dennis