Why I love python.

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Nick Patavalis wrote:
> 

<snip>

> Python needs drastic performance improvement if it is to scrap-off the
> "scripting language" stigma. The only way to get these improvements is
> making it possible for a python implementation to produce *efficient*
> *compiled* code. At the same time the dynamic-typing nature of the
> language is one of its most valuable characteristics. And this is one
> of the hardest problems when trying to write a decent python
> compiler. If you define a function like:
> 
>   def sum (a, b):
>     return a + b
> 
> How can the compiler know what code to produce? 

I know of at least one language which has solved this problem, Ocaml

    http://www.ocaml.org/

Its called type inferencing and since there is at least one working 
implementation, it can't be THAT hard.


Erik
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