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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by quasimojo on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:57AM (#324140)
indeed. and lets remember that all of the built-ins in perl, php, python etc are written in c and compiled and optimized and debugged.
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Re:Suppose I wanted to write a C++ based web application... by alecco on Sunday October 05, 2008 @07:53PM (#324459)
Python's pypy is written in RPython (it is python but with less features.) And it is already getting close to the main interpreter in C.

I can't wait for them to finally get the on the fly compiler working. Good times coming in the language competition.

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