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

[Stefan Behnel]

Tim Harig, 18.01.2011 12:37:
> On 2011-01-18, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 20:41:
>>> I prefer a single language as opposed to a creolization of two.
>>
>> With the possible exception of Lisp, I find it hard to think of a language
>> that's still alive and not the creolisation of (at least) two other
>> languages. They all inherited from each other, sometimes right from the
>> start ("lessons learned") and always during their subsequent life time.
>
> I am not talking about language influences.  Cython effectively requires
> two separate languages that interoperate.  The end result is a mix
> of two code written in two separate langauges.  That is not a single
> language solution.

I don't really agree with the word "separate", and especially not "two 
codes". I think of Cython more as Python with the addition of C data types, 
integrated by a smart compiler. So the language actually is Python, it's 
just that you can apply it to a broader set of data representations.

Stefan