Re: Prothon and capabilities

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:23:42 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user,gmane.comp.lang.prothon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Because Prothon doesn't have "users" in the normal sense, being unfinished
and all, we are currently using prothon-users for all topics that are under
consideration and prothon-dev for all agreed upon features that are under
development.  So this topic belongs under prothon-user.

"Ben Laurie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Mark Hahn wrote:
> > (Please use our Prothon lists).
>
> Sure, but surely this is a topic for the -dev list?
>
> > I'm not familiar with E and EROS.  Please explain or post a URL.
>
> EROS: http://www.eros-os.org/
>
> Introductory material: http://www.eros-os.org/essays/00Essays.html
>
> E: http://www.erights.org/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Laurie [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 5:46 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Prothon and capabilities
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've spent some time looking at putting capabilities (in the E and EROS
> > sense - I'll be happy to explain further if that means nothing to you)
> > into Python, but Python has made some internal design decisions that
> > actually make that very hard. Prothon looks like a language that might
> > be able to fix that, especially since its at an early stage of
> > development. I wonder if that's something I could interest you in
> > supporting (with my help, of course!)?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ben.
> >
>
>
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