Will multithreading make python less popular?

[Christian Heimes]

rushenaly at gmail.com schrieb:
> Thank you Steve,
> 
> I really wanted to learn python, but as i said i don't want to make a
> dead investment. I hope someone can fix these design errors and maybe
> can write an interpreter in python :)

Good luck with Java! You have just traded one "design flaw" for another,
more fatal design error. Please read this paper from a Berkely professor
for CS why people think that threads are evil and not the right solution
for concurrency on multi core systems.
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf

Quote:
[...] non-trivial multi-threaded programs are incomprehensible for humans.

HTH
Christian