Hi, Martin C. Martin wrote: > 2. Lisp is the only dynamically typed language (that I know of) that > cares about efficiency. It has optional static typing for efficiency, > so you can say "this sub-expression will be of type X, so at runtime > don't even bother looking at its type, just call the right method based > the the type I'm telling you." It's about as fast as C/C++ if you avoid > a few poorly thought out parts of the language.
There are very efficient /implicitly/ typed languages, though. Think of ML, for example. It has compile time type inference, so it's actually statically typed, you just don't see it (and you don't care either). Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
