[OT] Compilable Python-like language?

[Ed Cogburn]

Richard James wrote:
> Ed Cogburn <edcogburn at hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.183.1079791608.742.python-list at python.org>...
> 
>>I'm just curious if such a beast exists out there.  I've googled around some 
>>and read some programming language websites but I have yet to find a language 
>>similar to Python that can be compiled to binary.  Have I been looking in the 
>>wrong places?  I certainly can't be the only person to want a Pythonish 
>>language that can be compiled.  Even a language that just uses Python's basic 
>>syntax characteristics (no end-of-statement markers, use indentation to denote 
>>code blocks, less verbose syntax overall, etc) without the advanced dynamic 
>>and OO features would still be interesting to me (indeed, it would really have 
>>to lose most of the dynamic characteristics in order to make it a compilable 
>>language, which is why we don't have compile-to-binary Python, right?).  Is 
>>there such a thing?
> 
> 
> Ed, have a look at "The Great Win32 Computer Language Shootout":
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/
> 
> It benchmarks 51 different scripted and compiled languages to give you
> a feel for relative perfomance:
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/craps.html
> 
> And you can look at the source code of 25 different benchmarks in each
> of the 51 different languages!


Thanks Richard!

This is *very* helpful.