Python's biggest compromises

[John Roth]

"Marc" <marcstober at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In general, I suspect BASIC is more defined by compromises than
> Python.
>
> To me there is a compromise in Python's dependence on C. It seems that
> at some point I will hit a performance or feature issue that will
> require me to write a C extension. It seems to me VB6 has a similarly
> awkward relationship with C++. Clearly the creators of Python were
> expert C programmers; that should not be a requirement to become an
> expert Python programmer.

As a number of people have said: if PyPy ever gets working...

John Roth
>
> - Marc