The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[Michael Torrie]

On 03/21/2016 06:43 AM, BartC wrote:
> On 21/03/2016 12:08, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 9:15:32 PM UTC-4, BartC wrote:
>>>
>>> A tokeniser along those lines in Python, with most of the bits filled
>>> in, is here:
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/dtM8WnFZ
>>>
>>
>> Bart, we get it: you don't like the trade-offs that Python has made.
> ...
>> You don't like Python.  Can we leave it at that?
> 
> On the contrary, I do like it. It's just a shame it's made those 
> trade-offs as a bit more speed would have made it more useful to me.

Have you looked at compiled, python-inspired languages like Num
(http://nim-lang.org/). If it's syntax you like and some other Python
things like for the for loop works, maybe something like this would be
useful to you.