to py or not to py ?

[Steve Holden]

Serge Orlov wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Chandrashekhar kaushik <shekhar.kaushik at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>>also is it actually a good idea to write high perf applications in python ?
> 
> 
> Take a look at Mercurial <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/> sources.
> It's a high performance python application. Or watch Bryan
> O'Sullivan's Mercurial presentation
> <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7724296011317502612> he
> talks briefly how they made it work fast.
> 
> But writing high performance application in python requires
> self-discipline and attention to details, looking at the way you spell
> I think it will be a challenge ;)

This doesn't distinguish Python: are there any languages that you can 
write high-performance applications in *without* self-discipline and 
attention to details?

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  Steve
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