MacPython Logo from __future__ import *

buy music albums Silver Apples buy mp3 albums Tarrus Riley buy tracks mp3 Kravits buy Reaper albums mp3 buy Kravits albums music buy music Evita CD online albums mp3 Silver Apples download Madonna CD music buy tracks music Kravits download music albums Silver Apples

2004-02-06

Daikon

Filed under: python — bob @ 5:00 am

Daikon is a pretty neat idea.. it seems sort of like an empirical way to do stuff like type inference, but officially it dynamically detects program invariants. It would be nice if we had something like this for Python to help us write better tests and possibly optimize code. For some bizarre reason, Daikon 1 was written in Python, but 2 and 3 were Java. Even still, it has never analyzed Python code.

And if you think about doing a version for Python, don't bother porting it; the Daikon license is bogus. "Daikon is made available for education, research, and evaluation purposes (not for direct commercial gain), and there is no warranty". Besides, it would probably take more time to figure out which license a port/front end would be subject to (I see four or five mentioned!) than to just rewrite the damned thing.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

I'm WP-Hashcash. I eat spam.

Powered by WordPress