[MonoDevelop] Any plans to support python for .net?

Uwe Fechner ufechner@sk28.de
Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:17:51 +0200


A Rafael D Teixeira schrieb:

>On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:08, Uwe Fechner wrote:
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>>(I think, it would be a really good idea. I like python, but there are 
>>many libraries, that are only available for c# or java, and with python 
>>for mono I could write my own code in python and easily use these 
>>libraries.)
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>Hi Uwe,
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>You might be interested in the new Boo language
>(http://boo.codehaus.org/):
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Hello Rafael,

yes, this boo language sounds really interesting.

Thanks for the hint.

Regards:

Uwe

>"Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for
>the Common Language Infrastructure with a python inspired syntax and a
>special focus on language and compiler extensibility."
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>By being statically typed Boo keeps most of the concise Python syntax,
>but blends better with the CLI (mono/.net) environment.
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>It's creator (Rodrigo 'Bamboo' Oliveira), already took the time to
>create the syntax mapping files that gtksourceview uses for syntax
>coloring, so at least you could use MonoDevelop to edit it's files, but
>deeper integration is only in the planning stage just now.
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>Hope it is of some interest for you folks,
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