I could live without human readable code, that was more about bypassing the need for an intermediate debugger; and readable code is a good proof that the langua

I could live without human readable code, that was more about bypassing the need for an intermediate debugger; and readable code is a good proof that the language doesn't try to do too much. Shedskin looks like a very cool project, and it's quite fast [1], thanks for the tip. Alas, it depends on a garbage collector (not to mention a substantial library), which reduces flexibility and portability - you can't for example build a portable C++ library with it. [1] although not as fast as C, or even V8 js: http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb