Is python not good enough?

[John Nagle]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 1/12/2010 10:17 AM, Krister Svanlund wrote:
> Their goal of 
> making Go very fast to compile by machines somewhat conflicts with 
> Python's goal of being fast to read by humans.

    Actually, no.  It's quite possible to make a Python implementation that
runs fast.  It's just that CPython, a naive interpreter, is too primitive
to do it.  I was really hoping that Google would put somebody good at
compilers in charge of Python and bring it up to production speed.

    Look at Shed Skin, a hard-code compiler for Python with automatic
type inference.  One guy did that.

    The language is fine, but the CPython implementation is obsolete.

					John Nagle