Looking for a dream language: sounds like Python to me.

[Dotan Cohen]

> It is neither efficient or inefficient: it is just a distribution
> tool, to deploy python software in a form familiar to most windows
> users. It does not make it any faster than running the software under
> a python prompt.
>
> As much as I like python for scientific programming, I would say
> python is pretty far from the stated requirements in the posted blog
> post. It is difficult to deploy software written with python (much
> better than the alternatives, though), and it is slow if you can't
> leverage numpy/scipy (where vectorization does not apply).
>
> It remains to be seen whether it will be true in practice, but
> something like F#, with its integration in VS 2010, seems much closer
> IMHO. It is compiled, high level language, and backed by the biggest
> software vendor in the world.
>

The blog post is not looking to distribute his code, but he would like
it to be cross platform for his own reasons. VB is not cross platform.


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