python simply not scaleable enough for google?

[Terry Reedy]

greg wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>>    Take a good look at Shed Skin.  ...
>> You give up some flexibility; a variable can have only one primitive type
>> in its life, or it can be a class object.  That's enough to simplify the
>> type analysis to the point that most types can be nailed down before the
>> program is run.
> 
> These restrictions mean that it isn't really quite
> Python, though.

Python code that only uses a subset of features very much *is* Python 
code. The author of ShedSkin makes no claim that is compiles all Python 
code.