Welcome to Nightmare Software!
This is the home of Nightmare Software.
We build software for the Internet using Python,
a powerful, extensible, and easy-to-learn object-oriented programming language.
Our current projects:
A high-performance extensible single-threaded server architecture
(currently supporting HTTP, FTP, and other Internet protocols) for
Unix and Windows.
A dynamic GUI class library for Win32 and Python. Designed in the
spirit of Java's Swing library and ParcPlace Smalltalk.
A simple virtual-machine/compiler for the core of the programming
language Scheme. The long-term goal is to host on top of it a
dialect of Python with support for closures and first-class
continuations; this language will be used to experiment with the
asynchronous i/o techniques of Medusa, and to explore the idea of
event-loop-less graphical user interface libraries.
A coroutine is a control-flow feature that lets you arbitrarily
suspend and resume a 'thread' of control. They make it possible to
build simple easily-understood systems around asynchronous I/O that
would otherwise require complex state machines.
Software
A catalog of software available from this site.
Sam Rushing / rushing@nightmare.com
