On 11 Des, 20:25, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shed Skin effort. Its author writes "Am I the only one seeing the potential > of an implicitly statically typed Python-like-language that runs at > practically the same speed as C++?"
Don't forget about Pyrex and PyPy's RPython. By the way, we don't need a hotspot JIT compiler. Lisp has a compiler invoked by the programmer. We could include optional static typing in Python, and have an optional static optimizing native compiler for selected portions of code. That would be easier to implement in the short run, with JIT-capabilities added later. Pyrex, ShedSkin or RPython are all good starting points. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
