Archive 30. November 2004

Film Foundation Honors Artists and Cinemas

In Münster, Cinema and Schlosstheater each won a prize (20,000 and 15,000 euros). Congratulations to them! After all, these are our last bastions of independent cinemas - Cinema has existed since my school days with long cinema nights and lard sandwiches during intermission.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Module Pycaml

Interesting project: someone has written a reimplementation of the Python/C API for OCaml (of course the native-code compiler, not the bytecode interpreter). This makes it possible to do the following things:

  • Write Python extension libraries in OCaml
  • Use Python-C extension libraries in OCaml
  • Use Python modules in OCaml (generally use the Python interpreter in OCaml)
  • Use the Python toplevel for OCaml

It all sounds very exciting and could be very interesting for some applications - OCaml produces very fast code and can easily compete with C in this area. Especially for implementing the parts of code that are too slow in Python, OCaml is of course much more interesting than C because of its significantly better type safety.

Here's the original article.

Python 2.4

Now it's out.

Here you can find the original article.