Nando Dessena wrote:

>Robert,
>
>RD> Maybe Python (www.python.org) could be a good choice.
>
>significant line feeds do not match my definition of "clarity of pascal",
>sorry. ;-)
>But let's not drag this one too much; every task has a language best
>suited for it, and it's not always the same.
>
>Ciao
>
>

And speed isn't really Python's strength. Though the net is full of
benchmarks trying to prove the opposite, in my experience in computation
intensive tasks Object Pascal and C++ are 20 to 300 times faster than
Java or Python. Parsing a 1.48 MB text file building a memory intensive
structure goes from a couple of minutes in Delphi to a couple of hours
in Python. I guess the advantages of automatic memory management have
their price...

Ciao
Giovanni

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