from http://www.falconpl.org/index.ftd?page_id=facts
	Falcon	Python*	Ruby	PHP5	Lua	Perl
Document Template	yes	no	no	yes	no	no
Native regular expressions	no	no	yes	no	no	yes
Coroutines	yes	no | partial	yes	no	yes	no
Multithreading	yes	partial	no	no	no	partial
Embeddability	high	low	low	no	high	low
C Dynamic Library Interface	yes	via ctypes	no	no	partial	no
Native internationalization	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Compile-time Metaprogramming	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Procedural programming	yes	partial	no	yes	yes	yes
Object oriented	yes	partial	yes	yes	no	partial
Prototype oriented	yes	partial	no	no	yes	partial
Functional programming	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Tabular programming	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Message programming	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Raw VM loop speed (2)	1023	442 | 340	116	670	1247	369
Direct binary data access	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Data sharing & reflection	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Virtual filesystem	yes (from 0.9)	no	no	yes	no	no
Library size	small	huge	large	Huge(3)	medium	huge
License	FPLL or GPL	Python	Custom or GPL	PHP	MIT	ARTISTIC or GPL