Cameron Laird Quote on www.unixinsider.com -- Probably old news to y'all, but new to me.

[Paul Prescod]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Yeah, I was going to say: there's an awfully large application area _between_
> scripting and interactive 3d graphics apps! Python already does quite well
> with interactive 2d graphics, though: see eg. Sketch.

There were video game guys at the conference who say they use Python on
the client side for the AI. On the other hand, even the most basic
script depends heavily on parts of the interpreter and the OS written in
C. So the vast majority of apps will profit from a mix of languages. But
each year the proportion will shift from towards Python and away from C.
Embedding Python will become less interesting than embedding (and
inlining!) C, just as C inlines assembly.

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