Hy programming language

Hy (alternately, Hylang) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language designed to incorporate with Python by translating expressions into Python’s abstract syntax tree (AST). source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy

Hy website: http://hylang.org/

Hi @Andrew_Nowicki

were you thinking that this would be useful in Rhino? Or just a FYI?

Giulio

Giulio Piacentino
for Robert McNeel & Associates
giulio@mcneel.com

Yes. Lisp programmers are very productive, probably more productive than Python programmers. I routinely wrote 50 lines of debugged Lisp code every day. (Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it.)

Facts? Cites?

I can do that in an hour in Python, and I’m slooooow.

–Mitch

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