some comments for Python 3000

[Ben Wolfson]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 07:06:42 GMT, lobozc at my-deja.com wrote:

>> I would make a wholesale switch to Python for all softare development
>> if I could use it in performance-sensitive environments.
>>
>> It doesn't have to be as fast a C, mind you.
>
>I wouldn't mind Python being faster - for free :-). But if I need
>something _running_ fast I'll use C++ - hard to beat. If I need a
>scripting language I need to write the smallest number of lines of code
>to get the result.

I think his point was that if Python could run faster due to being
compiled, then you would use it instead of C++--that would be a big boost
in popularity, no?

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