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Zed Shaw: Python Is My make

• henning 18y ago
  "In a dynamic language like Python or Ruby I don’t have this problem at all. There is no need for a make to run my program. I just run it." Does he think all statically typed languages are compiled-only and can't be run with an interpreter or from a REPL?
  • etal 18y ago
    "Dynamic" has to be one of the most misleading terms in casually discussing programming languages. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1562#comment-18623 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1562#comment-18623 Not sure whether to throw SCons into the discussion.
• holygoat 18y ago
  Misuse of "compiled". Zed fail. I use a compiled language all day that gives me a console, no separate compile stage, etc. sigh
  • lithp 18y ago
    SBCL?
    • euccastro 18y ago
      Python would be another example. It's compiled into bytecode. It could conceivably be compiled into x86 machine code on-the-fly (think Psyco). It's just hard to do, but for the same reasons a static Python compiler to assembly would be hard to do; the REPL is not making things much harder here.