[Python-Dev] Re: Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

[Terry Reedy]

"Graham Guttocks" <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz> wrote in message
news:20030130211504.810.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com...
> Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's actually not all that tough
>
> Oh? Guido seems to disagree with you.

No contradiction or disagreement.  It is not all that tough to do
something of limited benefit, such as pre-interpreting Python byte
codes into a series of function calls in some
compilable-to-machine-code language.  It is *must* harder to do
something much more useful, which is all Guido would be interested in.

A a grad student, Armin Rigo conceived and implemented a clever idea
which works with a large subset of Python.  Now that he has graduated
to the real world, I am sure all of us hope that he finds the means to
continue.  PyRex and Weave are other projects that help certain Python
applications.

Terry J. Reedy