Paul Prescod wrote:
> >... It also makes a
> > superior language for prototyping Java applications, since many aspects
> > (iterators, rinda, single inheritance only, etc.) are similar to Java. 
> 
> I'm surprised to hear you say that. I would have thought that Python is
> a much better match for Java because you can code in Jython and then
> port bits over to Java incrementally. Python 2.2 has iterators, and may
> well have "rinda" (whatever that is!). Restricting yourself to single

I am sure Python will never have a "Rinda", because this stands for
"Ruby Linda" ;-)
Rinda or Linda are distributed tuplespaces.


Regards,

  Michael


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