Python-URL! - 1998/11/16

by Cameron Laird - DejaNews: [1]

Summaries of Conference action are available ... well, they aren't available. Just come to the Conference; that's the only solution.

• Principia is free! Bobo's big brother aims for world domination http://www.digicool.com/site/Principia/Announcement-981311
• Python wins a supercomputer competition. Sure, David Beazley et al. had to fluff it up with actual physics, visualization code, and other cosmetics, and the official judges made the mistake of placing it second, but it's still an impressive trick for a small language of humble origins. As this is a supercomputer prize, it might be a couple more months before the results make it to the Web. In the meantime, see the Avalon home page http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon
• John van der Koijk gives an example of a working DDE client (see DN411033170)
• When Hisao Suzuki misses closures, he binds Python methods (see DN411025164)
• Michael T. Richter and others explain COM, ActiveX, ... (see DN411478020)
• In particular, Andrew Robinson shows not only how to get Delphi and Python to work together, but why this is desirable (see DN412026305)
• WebKit uses gadfly to manage simple aspects of Web sites (see DN404738547)
• Ouch! Do you know the limits of print's thread-safety? Student of unnatural operations Tim Peters does (see DN411981039)
• In much the same spirit, he concludes an odyssey through exceptional ideas with the perfectly simple notion that to "bitch early and often" is eminently practical (see DN411033172)
• Thomas Bellman and others solve (modulo NFS) arcane security holes in temp file manipulation (see DN404610024)
• Zane Lewkowicz argues that covariance is the principal theoretical challenge of object orientation and summarizes his opponent's arguments (thread [2])