Jesse Phillips:
Ok, that sounds really stupid. I thought it had a compiled
component, but I don't see that, just looks to be interpreted.
Magpie designer (Bob Nystrom) is a quite smart person :-) Here he
explains two main kinds of iterations:
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-inside-and-out/
I think Magpie is not meant to become a widespread language, but
it contains interesting ideas.
I think the core of Magpie is interpreted, but you can run the
type system statically, if you want.
Bye,
bearophile