Why not Ruby?

[Paul Rubin]

r <rt8396 at gmail.com> writes:
> I am beginning to think
> the perfect high level language would take the best for Ruby and
> Python. The ultimate language with speed in mind, pythons clear
> syntax, but with shortcuts for gurus.

You might like Tim Sweeney's POPL talk:

  http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf

> Of course pythons list, dict, strings in my opinion just can't be beat, 

On many occasions I've wished for a functional dictionary
implementation in Python, like Haskell's Data.Map.  One of these years
I'll get around to writing one.