Re: COBOL compiler

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> Can't say about Perl, but attempts at a Python compiler have only
> been partially successful, because Python is so dynamic.

Common Lisp is also a very dynamic language, and can be compiled.
(Some implementations are completely compiled.)

AFAICT, it's just that writing a compiler is hard, and porting it to
new systems also takes work, while the interpreter works everywhere.
Python will probably get a compiler eventually, but it's not an easy
thing.

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