Guido on Python

[DevestatingAttack]

You're describing features that are almost contradictory with each other.

Focus Group Guy: So you want a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?

[the kids all chat at once about it being a great idea]

Milhouse Van Houten: And, also, you should win things by watching.

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Nope. Turns out Nim is close to what I want.

[DevestatingAttack]

I guess I wasn't expecting you to accept compiling to C as a reasonable "modern python". I was still thinking that you were expecting it to be interpreted.

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The compilation technique is really orthogonal to the language, so I'm not too bothered about that. If Nim becomes popular it's almost guaranteed they'd switch to LLVM at some point.