Python-like compiled language

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <9163mr02v2t at news1.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

| "Erno Kuusela" <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote in message
| news:kuzoi178kg.fsf at lasipalatsi.fi...
|| In article <3A35835B.AAA92005 at bioeng.ucsd.edu>, Curtis Jensen
|| <cjensen at bioeng.ucsd.edu> writes:
|| 
|| | The closest compiled languege to Python is probaby C/C++.
|| 
|| huh? [...]

in retrospect, i can see how C/C++ could be considered close
to python in the sense that they're easyish to interface
to python, and they're (compatible with, in the case of c++)
python's implementation language.

the above quoted sentence just triggered a reflex :)

[java points snipped]

| But in the context in which the question was asked, Java would
| not be much use, as the context was one of speed.  Python plus
| Numeric was judged too slow by the original poster; he wanted
| a faster solution.  I'd bet big bucks that Python+Numerics is
| faster than current Java implementations on all typical numeric
| issues, so Java wouldn't help.

some say that the latest virtual machines should be quite fast, but
then again with java you never know how much truth there is to the
hype...

[good scheme suggestion snipped]

it is also rumored that ocaml has a good optimizing compiler.

| Similarity is in the eye of the beholder... as is "compiledness"!-)

very true!

  -- erno