Using Python for programming algorithms

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Henrique Dante de Almeida a écrit :
> On May 17, 7:32 pm, Vicent Giner <vgi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>  I guess that python is not a good language for that. 
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>  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.