Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Carl Friedrich Bolz:
> Indeed, there are similarities to pyrex. Of course in pyrex you have to
> give the types yourself, but since the type inference engine of PyPy can
> sometimes be hard to understand this is maybe not the worst trade-off.
> A nice advantage of the PyPy approach would be that you can test your
> RPython code by running it on top of CPython until it works and only
> then translating it into C. [...]
> But as I said, this is all pretty unclear at the moment

Maybe PyPy can be used to allow a better linking between interpreted
Python code and code compiled by ShedSkin.
SS contains a good type inferencer that maybe can be useful to compile
RPython too, aren't PyPy people interested in SS and its capabilities?

Bye,
bearophile