Monday, 24 January 2000
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If you're luckier than I am, then you're attending the 8th annual International Python Conference this week. Hot topics include Zope, the future of Python, JPython, Chris Tismer's new Stackless Python and, hopefully, Skaller's Viper, an Ocaml implementation of Python.
I think Python is going to be the Next Big Thing in the open source world. It may also become in the next decade one of the premiere "first languages" for beginning programmers.
I'd like to see Python go through an international standardization process, such as ISO; but ANSI or ECMA would work as well. It needs to be formally specified so that the various implementations of Python (CPython, JPython, Viper, Stackless Python, the win32, COM-rich port) do not splinter into a mess of incompatability.
This is "Life is better without braces": The Eighth International Python Conference <http://monkeyfist.com/articles/118>