Questions for BitTorrent's Author, Bram Cohen

[Alex Martelli]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Bram Cohen will be a keynoter at this year's PyCon, and has asked that
> the presentation be in the form of an interview.
> 
> I'd like the questions to be representative of as broad a cross-section
> of the Python community as possible. If you have a question you'd like
> to hear Bram answer please let me know and I'll try to include them.

OK, let me start this with a provocatory question...:

"Why Python?  For the prototype, sure.  But now that the protocol and
feature set have stabilized, surely you can get leaner and faster code
by redoing it all in C, can't you?"


Alex