Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

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Donn Cave wrote:
> In article <mailman.2231.1140532613.27775.python-list at python.org>,
>  "Chris Mellon" <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > They won't say Java. Ask them why Python is interpreted and Java isn't
> > and you'll have a hard time getting a decent technical answer, because
> > Python isn't all that different from Java in that regard, especially
> > pre-JIT versions of Java.
>
> For me that would be partly because I don't know that
> much about Java, honestly.  Just searching at random
> for something about the subject, I cam across this -
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-native.html?loc=j
> - which seems like it might be of some interest here.
>
> My impression from reading this is that Java actually
> can be compiled to native code, though in 2002 this
> was relatively new.
>
>    Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu


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