On May 3, 5:21 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2011 21:02:43 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote: > > The other arguments are valid. And they make me lean more towards more > > static, compiled languages without the excessive run-time dynamism of > > python. > > If you value runtime efficiency over development time, sure. There are > plenty of languages which have made that decision: Pascal, C, Java, Lisp, > Forth, and many more.
Or Haskell: Succinctness like python Type safety better than C, C++, Java with a minimum of type declarations -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list