[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scala seems terse and fast enough, few examples: > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=psyco&lang2=scala > > Bye, > bearophile
Static typing, type inference, "sequence comprehensions"... Looks that there's a new crop of programming languages on top of the main .NET and JAVA with these characteristics. This one seems to be following the trend initiated by Nemerle and Boo. The good thing about these languages is that they offer the performance of static languages, with the feel of dynamic ones. Thanks to their local type inference, you don't have to declare types or return types so often, and with generics, type castings are also reduced to a minimum. Anyway, I think that from a python programmer perspective, those looking for a static language for .NET or Mono would find Boo more appealing. For example, I use it for writing extenssions for Ironpython when I need more performance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
