Interpreted and compiled languages [LWN.net]

Interpreted and compiled languages

Posted Nov 22, 2009 23:56 UTC (Sun) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: Interpreted and compiled languages by michaeljt
Parent article: The notmuch mail client

Python is a really poor example. It's slow and uses loads of memory.

Look at a real, static, compiled language with type inference. The current leaders in this area are all
functional languages. FWIW I started writing something similar to notmuch/sup in OCaml (a few
months ago, and without knowing about sup -- I'll probably abandon it for something better
supported now like notmuch).

Rich.

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