On 03/04/14 at 07:49am, FRIGN wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:14:05 +0100 > Silvan Jegen <s.je...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My biggest gripe with the language is the absence of static type > > checking at compile time.
> In some cases, Python is up to 50% slower than well-written C, but to > be fair, it does the memory-management for you ;). I am not a programmer, but I write code in scientific modelling. Python + Numpy + Scipy (which, I understand, takes care of typing in a reasonable manner) is plenty fast, and very readable (and writable). Manolo
