On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:03:42PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Python is not as slow as it used to be. Especially with packages like
> psyco (a dynamic x86 optimiser for python) it can approach the speed of
> C for some code. In fact, it can even be *faster* than C, because it can
> do dynamic optimsations on running code that a static compiler can't do.
right, the same has been true for pike all along.
> Mmmmm. Python syntax. Very nice.
indeed, after starting to learn python, my first reaction to pike was:
can't we change pike to get rid of those braces?
(should even be possible, pike has a python parser, which doesn't handle
everything in python, but it would be enough for a pike based on
indenting (hmm, pikon ;-))
greetings, martin.
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