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Re:Language War - Scala versus Python by shared4you on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:34AM (#5251372)
Have you checked out Cython[1]? It's used quite often in Numpy. Basically, you add some type annotations like, int, double, etc. for some speed-up. There is a quick tutorial as well [2].

[1]: http://cython.org/

[2]: http://wiki.cython.org/tutorials/numpy

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Re:Language War - Scala versus Python by nnq on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:53AM (#5251506)
I know, it great for the speed-up. But for just making things more manageable it's not worth the added complication of build/compile. I know, my problem is actually solved by "properly written tests" :) ...for I still long for some optional drop-in static typing.
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