[Python-Dev] Internal representation of strings and Micropython

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:17:12 +1000
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. 

Exactly, CPython (already) exists, and it works, so people can just use
it. MicroPython's aim is to go where CPython didn't, and couldn't, go.
For that, it's got to be different, or it literally won't fit there,
like CPython doesn't.

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