[OT] Compilable Python-like language?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.272.1080036399.742.python-list at python.org>,
Ed Cogburn  <edcogburn at hotpop.com> wrote:
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>The language shootout someone posted about was very interesting.  By my 
>"criteria", Lua is the closet to what I'm looking for, unfortunately it seems 
>to be just a slight variation of Python (byte-compiled-then-interpreted), and 
>although it scores higher, it does so just barely (virtually identical on 
>Linux).  For me, ocaml is the real surprise, it scores the same as gcc (on the 
>Linux side, see the link below).  Its not Python-like, of course, but I'm 
>surprised to see any other language score as well as gcc on a *nix system (gcc 
>being born on *nix, being one of the oldest and most heavily used and 
>beaten-on languages, as well as being optimized to death).
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>http://dada.perl.it/shootout/craps2craps.html
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Sometimes Lua can be quite a bit faster than Python.  Re-
cent versions of both have significantly improved performance
in some aspects.  The big news in the Lua world is The Book
<URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b47ab9c7633a2597 >.

Ocaml is rather miraculous in a couple of ways, including
performance.  I suspect you'd like it.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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