[fperez_org]

IPython creator here, just to say I'm thrilled to see this! We've wanted more languages to follow this route, and while we have only had time to work directly with the Julia team, it's fabulous to see others following up with the idea.

Please don't hesitate to ask us on the dev mailing list if you run into any problems. For one thing, we're planning on making some updates to the protocol spec soon, based mostly on the experience of the IJulia work. It would be great to have your input there as well, in case you spot something that wouldn't fit well the patterns you saw while doing the Haskell port.

And besides, this means I now have one less excuse to get off my butt and learn Haskell! :)

[mercuryrising]

This is really interesting. Is there any hope for a hybrid language? Like python with haskells time system, or writing lambda functions like lisp and using python to execute? Basically, taking the 'best' parts of languages and combining them.

What about multiple definitions for functions depending on what kind of input is given. Like python has no tail recursion, but lisp does. Write a python function that gets transparently translated to lisp to utilize the features of the language.

[tel]

This isn't related to a hybrid language per se. IPython runs a language core and then provides a notebook frontend atop it.

You could perhaps have multiple language cores each communicating problems to one another via the common language of the notebook... but that's nothing more than any other text serialization route with all of the challenges therein.

[PieSquared]

Thanks! I will shoot you an email soon.