[Slightly-OT] Wasn't Google supposed to be "avid Python-Users" ?

[Robin Becker]

In article <e840346c.0202070724.13440c8d at posting.google.com>, Mark Brady
<kalath at lycos.com> writes
>Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote in message news:<7xr8nxy0rb.fsf at ruck
>us.brouhaha.com>...
>> I don't know what would happen if someone tried a big project in
>> Python (Zope is medium sized).  Maybe it would work ok, maybe not.
>> 
>> I do believe a native-code compiler would make Python a lot more
>> interesting for many purposes.
>
>I think this would be very useful also but how would it work with
>Python's dynamic features? I know some native code comipled languages
>such as Objective C and GJC (the GNU java native code compiler) come
>with a runtime library for the native exe, is this possible for a
>language like python?
>
>Mark.
I think there are good compilers for lisp which can be a very dynamic
language so in principle it's not the dynamic nature of python that
prevents native compilation.
-- 
Robin Becker