Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by munro on Friday May 09, 2014 @01:48PM (#7722234)

Please continue! Don't leave us hanging for the riveting conclusion :) I don't know ML so I would love to hear another perspective

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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by chriswarbo on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:05PM (#7722975)

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29

ML dates from the 70s and its type system is the inspiration for Haskell's, although Haskell also adds typeclasses (and various Haskell extensions add a bunch of other stuff).

The most widely used versions today are Standard ML and Ocaml, although many languages take inspiration from ML, for example Coq, Haskell, Clean, etc.

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Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by nirvdrum on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:10PM (#7723506)

Just to add to the list: Scala takes a lot of nods from ML and F# is a nice variant if you're on .NET.

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