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From: aland@servio.slc.com (Alan Darlington)
Subject: Re: Type systems, Dylan, Smalltalk, etc. (Was: Re: Will Java...)
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kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov writes:
<snip>
> But I profoundly disagree with the implication that it's not necessary
> to design a language around performance.
> 
> There are plenty of great new langauges which run slowly; there are far
> fewer great new ones which run quickly. 

Perhaps this is because the "classic" languages and hardware have
been designed to support each other over the past 40 years.  Should
the "new" languages get similar hardware support (questionable, at
best), I believe they would have comparable (or superior) performance.

  IMHO, of course.  :-)
  Alan
