Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2008-05-15 15:50.
You might consider the Scala programming language: I think it offers the best of Python but running on the JVM. It's very nearly as fast as Java (and thus much faster than Python), and sometimes faster. It's more OO and more functional than Java, and I think both Python and Java programmers will be very happy with it. And while Scala is a statically typed language, it's much more pleasant than Java, thanks to type inference and a few other nice features.
And it has scripting capabilities and an interpreter shell, like Python (and unlike Java).
Consider Scala
You might consider the Scala programming language: I think it offers the best of Python but running on the JVM. It's very nearly as fast as Java (and thus much faster than Python), and sometimes faster. It's more OO and more functional than Java, and I think both Python and Java programmers will be very happy with it. And while Scala is a statically typed language, it's much more pleasant than Java, thanks to type inference and a few other nice features.
And it has scripting capabilities and an interpreter shell, like Python (and unlike Java).
http://www.scala-lang.org/