Using Python for programming algorithms

[Henrique Dante de Almeida]

On May 19, 6:52 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> Henrique Dante de Almeida a écrit :
>
> > On May 17, 7:32 pm, Vicent Giner <vgi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello.
>
> (snip)
> >> However, it is usually said that Python is not a compiled but
> >> interpreted programming language —I mean, it is not like C, in that
> >> sense.
>
> (snip)
> >  I guess that python is not a good language for that.
> (snip)
> >  My opinion: choose compiled or byte compiled languages.
>
> Slightly OT (ie : not talking about computation-heavy alorgithm being
> better implemented in C then wrapped in Python - this seems quite
> obvious) but just a couple facts:
>
> 1/ being interpreted or compiled (for whatever definition of these
> terms) is not a property of a language, but a property of an
> implementation of a language.
>
> 2/ actually, all known Python implementations compile to byte-code.

 Yes, I was actually referring to statically typed JIT-compiled
languages. Sorry about that, blame the beers that entered my digestive
system that night. :-P