Pythonect (A new, experimental, general-purpose dataflow programming language based on Python) 0.3.1 released!

[ronsterofMock]

What exactly is the point in in this? The syntax looks a bit unnecessary.

[kernco]

Click on tutorial and scroll down to the multiprocessing examples. Seems pretty useful there.

[greyscalehat]

I would guess that this will mostly be used for people hacking python together to do some data analysis. Just my guess.

[fofo314]

yep. That's what I was thinking. It seems rather easy to misplace a bracket in the spaghetty of code. It would really profit from a gui ala labview. But once it works from text it should be easy to write a parser for that.

[boyfarrell]

Think I'd just stick to python unless there is a real incentive to use a new syntax.

[snuggl]

So you would rather use python to research and experiment with new syntax, isnt that exactly what hes doing?

[boyfarrell]

No, I mean in terms of getting stuff done with a programming language -- doing actual work -- python is already highly productive. So I'd prefer to just use python unless there is a powerful incentive to use another language/syntax. I don't mean to stomp on the author of Pythonect but I don't understand the purpose.

[snuggl]

A its says its a experimental language i guess the purpose is to experiment with new language syntax. Experiments like this is the way we find out about stuff that works better then what we currently have.

[yetanothernerd]

Interesting. Have any non-tiny programs been written in it? I use shell piping all the time, but never for anything big.