[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

[Tim Harig]

On 2011-01-16, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Tim Harig <usernet at ilthio.net> writes:
>> Those who are concerned about performance should check out Go.
>> Garbage collection, duck typing, and compiles to a native binary.
>> It creates a great middle ground between C++ and Python.  Any C and/or
>> Python programmer will feel right at home with the language.  It is
>> still a young language; but, I have been using it for some useful things.
>
> Go has some nice aspects but it is much lower level than Python.  If you

It is a little lower; but, I wouldn't say much lower.  My Go code is
much more similar in concept, feel, and size to my Python code then it
is to my C code.

> want a statically typed, compiled language closer to Python's level, I
> know of some projects that have switched from Python to Ocaml.  If you

I have head good things about Ocaml; but, I have never taken the time to
learn the language myself.  It never reached a critical mass of interest
from me to consider adopting it.  One of the things that gives me hope
for Go is that it is backed by Google so I expect that it may gain some
rather rapid adoption.  It has made enough of a wake to grab one of
Eweek's 18 top languages for 2011.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Java-C-C-Top-18-Programming-Languages-for-2011-480790/

> want dynamic types, I guess there's Dylan, Lisp, or possibly Erlang.

I am a big fan of Erlang and it's ability to create fault tolerant
systems; but, it isn't really a general purpose programming language.
It also runs inside of a VM which means that it doesn't produce native
binary.