[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:41:54 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:

> One of the arguments for Python has always made is that you can optimize
> it by writing the most important parts in C.  Perhaps that is a crutch
> that has held the communty back from seeking higher performance
> solutions in the language itself.

Are you aware of PyPy?

PyPy is now about double the speed of CPython for most things, and they 
have set themselves the ambitious target of being faster than C.

http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.html


-- 
Steven