Java > Scala

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 19:26 -0500, Patrick Stewart wrote:
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> Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Haskell, Lua, Ruby... Not quite sure, but this comes to my mind as languages which  are written mostly or completely in C. I guess it beats by far any other listed language we can use for building compilers. Correct me if I'm wrong, it is a nice day for learning something new.

CPython is written in C but PyPy is written in RPython (*).  PyPy is
about 5 times faster than CPython on most of the performance benchmarks
CPython has.

Wasn't the latest Perl initially written in Haskell?

(*) RPython is a subset of Python which allows for the creation of
native code executables of interpreters, compilers, etc. that are
provably faster than hand written C.  http://pypy.org/

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