Why I love python.

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Nick Patavalis wrote:
>> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Python needs drastic performance improvement if it is to scrap-off the
>> "scripting language" stigma. The only way to get these improvements is
>> making it possible for a python implementation to produce *efficient*
>> *compiled* code. At the same time the dynamic-typing nature of the
>> language is one of its most valuable characteristics. And this is one
>> of the hardest problems when trying to write a decent python
>> compiler. If you define a function like:
>> 
>>   def sum (a, b):
>>     return a + b
>> 
>> How can the compiler know what code to produce? 
> 
> I know of at least one language which has solved this problem, Ocaml
> 
>     http://www.ocaml.org/
> 
> Its called type inferencing and since there is at least one working 
> implementation, it can't be THAT hard.

Refer to the task "Typed Python" somewhere in the past if you want more
information about Python and Type inferencing.

Reinhold

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