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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Developers qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, quintela@redhat.com

On 11/29/2011 09:10 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 11/29/2011 05:51 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >> How to do high level stuff?
> >> - python?
> >>
> >
> > One of the disadvantages of the various scripting languages is the lack
> > of static type checking, which makes it harder to do full sweeps of the
> > source for API changes, relying on the compiler to catch type (or other)
> > errors.
> >
> > On the other hand, the statically typed languages usually have more
> > boilerplate.  Since one of the goals is to simplify things, this
> > indicates the need for a language with type inference.
> >
> > On the third hand, languages with type inferences are still immature
> > (golang?), so we probably need to keep this discussion going until an
> > obvious choice presents itself.
>
> I wouldn't call ML immature.  But I wouldn't call it a scripting
> language, either.

It was just off the radar for me.  We should consider it, by all means.

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