Python's Performance

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Oct 11 00:24:55 EDT 2005


Peter Hansen wrote:
> Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> 
>>"""
>>What is Python?
>>
>>Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
>>language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
>>"""
>>taken from
>>http://www.python.org/doc/Summary.html
>>
>>maybe someone could update that???
> 
> 
> Maybe we should add '''...for some definitions of "interpreted", 
> "object-oriented", and perhaps even "interactive". '''
> 
> I've seen at least the first two debated endlessly here.
> 
> -Peter
And we definitely need "agile" in there. Bugger, I'll go out and come in 
again ...

regards
  Steve
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