[PRL] Reddit rewritten in Python

[Daniel Pinto de Mello e Silva]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:47 -0800, John Clements wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2005, at 11:20 AM, psteckle at reit.pair.com wrote:
> 
> >> The (obvious) next question: WHEN WHEN WHEN will dynamic languages
> >> people agree on a runtime environment / GC interface so that
> >> different languages can interoperate?
> >
> > I use iPodder, which is written in Python, on both Windows and Linux.
> > I have to say, it works pretty well, and nearly identically
> > on both platforms.
> >
> > No reason it couldn't have been written in PLT Scheme, except
> > for the the convenience factor that the Python libraries
> > are already in Linux distros.
> 
> Right, but (as I'm sure you realize) this wouldn't be an issue if  
> scheme code could call python libraries).  That is, the pythonic  
> nature of the library wouldn't prevent you from writing the library  
> in PLT scheme.
> 

Scheme code can call Python libraries just like it can call C libraries.
Actually, it even makes the Python calls through C libraries.

Daniel