On Oct 1, 7:17 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote: > a) no language is inherently more or less efficient than any other language. > The efficiency > aspect is only related to how those languages are implemented (i.e., the > investments made in > optimizing the compilers/interpreters)
I used to believe the same. But if you see Richard Bird's paper: More haste less speed http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/richard.bird/online/BirdJonesDeMoor1997More.pdf maybe you would rethink this position? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list