Smalltalk and Python

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Alex Martelli [SMTP:aleaxit at yahoo.com]
> > | It's an absolutely stunning language for free, and although not as
> fast
> > | as Perl
> >
> > (it's as fast in my experience)
 
This site - <http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/> - shows Python being
outperformed by Perl in a number of categories, sometimes by a fair margin.

Not that I care too much about this myself - I'd rather write a pretty
program in Python that works than an ugly, fast one in Perl which probably
doesn't . Still, I wonder if we could suggest some tweaks to his Python
scripts which might improve Python's score.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to
do and not doing it. - Mary Little




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