On Apr 26, 7:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:22:55 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote: > > I often wonder what the world would be like if Python, C#, and Java > > embraced value types more, and had better support for pure functions. > > They would be slower, require more memory,
Funny, Haskell frequently beats C in both categories. MATLAB is faster and more memory efficient than naive C matrix code, since it has a very efficient copy-on-write implementation. As the various C++ matrix libraries will show you, efficient COW is much harder when you have to deal with C++ aliasing rules. > harder to use, and far, far less popular. Alas, these two are probably true. Adam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
