[OT] Compilable Python-like language?
Ed Cogburn
edcogburn at hotpop.com
Tue Mar 23 04:14:52 EST 2004
Richard James wrote:
> Ed Cogburn <edcogburn at hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.183.1079791608.742.python-list at python.org>...
>
>>I'm just curious if such a beast exists out there. I've googled around some
>>and read some programming language websites but I have yet to find a language
>>similar to Python that can be compiled to binary. Have I been looking in the
>>wrong places? I certainly can't be the only person to want a Pythonish
>>language that can be compiled. Even a language that just uses Python's basic
>>syntax characteristics (no end-of-statement markers, use indentation to denote
>>code blocks, less verbose syntax overall, etc) without the advanced dynamic
>>and OO features would still be interesting to me (indeed, it would really have
>>to lose most of the dynamic characteristics in order to make it a compilable
>>language, which is why we don't have compile-to-binary Python, right?). Is
>>there such a thing?
>
>
> Ed, have a look at "The Great Win32 Computer Language Shootout":
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/
>
> It benchmarks 51 different scripted and compiled languages to give you
> a feel for relative perfomance:
> http://dada.perl.it/shootout/craps.html
>
> And you can look at the source code of 25 different benchmarks in each
> of the 51 different languages!
Thanks Richard!
This is *very* helpful.
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