hi,
recently when describing pike i wrote the following:
pike is a classical all purpose language, which contrary to php or perl
was designed from the beginning to write large complex applications.
pike is rather fast because it is optimized strongly for the individual
machines. (the produced bytecode is machine dependant, (contrary to eg
python and java which produce machine independant bytecode, and are
therefore slower))
(i hope that is correct)
interresting was a reply that said:
ah. this language closes the gap between compilerlanguages and
unoptimized interpreted languages.
i have never looked at pike from this perspective
sounds like an interresting observation.
what do you think?
greetings, martin.