[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Daniel Holth]

Can of worms, opened.
On Jun 4, 2014 7:20 AM, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > An alternative view is that the discussion on the tracker showed Python
> > developers' mind-fixation on implementing something the way CPython does
> > it. And I didn't yet go to that argument, but in the end, MicroPython
> > does not try to rewrite CPython or compete with it. So, having few
> > choices with pros and cons leading approximately to the tie among them,
> > it's the least productive to make the same choice as CPython did.
>
> I'm not a CPython dev, nor a Python dev, and I don't think any of the
> big names of CPython or Python has showed up on that tracker as yet.
> But why is "be different from CPython" such a valuable choice? CPython
> works. It's had many hours of dev time put into it. Problems have been
> identified and avoided. Throwing that out means throwing away a
> freely-given shoulder to stand on, in an Isaac Newton way.
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
>
> ChrisA
> _______________________________________________
> Python-Dev mailing list
> Python-Dev at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
> Unsubscribe:
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dholth%40gmail.com
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140604/b7189b90/attachment.html>