On 2/9/2012 1:26 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Masklinn <masklinn@masklinn.net <mailto:masklinn@masklinn.net>> wrote:
On 2012-02-09, at 19:03 , Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The choice of which garbage collection implementation (ref counting is garbage collection) is a quality of implementation detail, not a language feature.
That's debatable, it's an implementation detail with very different semantics which tends to leak out into usage patterns of the language (as it did with CPython, which basically did not get fixed in the community until Pypy started ascending),
I think it was actually Jython that first sensitized the community to this issue.
Yes, it was. The first PyPy status blog in Oct 2007 http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2007/10/first-post.html long before any practical release, was a year after the 2.5 release. -- Terry Jan Reedy