About alternatives to Matlab

[Paul Rubin]

Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> writes:
> What about translating the current Python interpreter into a language with a
> GC, like MLton-compiled SML? That would probably make it much faster, more
> reliable and easier to develop.

Same issue as translating to CL, Python semantics are kind of odd and
don't map that well to Lisp and probably not to ML either (hint:
dynamic types).  Scheme is probably the best bet but even still there
are serious difference, like Python strings being immutable.

Right now Python is being reimplemented in itself, as any
self-respecting language should do.