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On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 08:43, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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> Hallo,

> Jan Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Depner wrote:

>

> > 	Geez Frank, you went and got serious on me ;-)

>

> I just took it as a cheap excuse to do some more propaganda, sorry. ;)

>

	There's nothing wrong with a little good propaganda.

> > Always remember though - scripting languages are not compiled so

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> > they're much slower.

>

> Not Pd. (Or AMS,...) Those modular systems are very optimized tools,

> which have no real speed disadvantage compared to directly compiled

> applications. There is a little bit of overhead, but nothing to worry

> about in almost all realworld scenarios. Pd even can use plain C as

> scripting language which is compiled on-the-fly using Kjetil's k_cext

> external, but I admit, that's a bit exotic (though it actually works).

> 

	I was thinking more in terms of Python, PHP, Perl, Bash.
Jan