Paul Rubin wrote:

> I think the Lispies see "more dynamism" as a good thing and are
> therefore defending their language from suggestions that Python is
> even more dynamic than Lisp.  I mean "dynamic" in a less good way--

Indeed, Python has sometimes been described
as "pathologically dynamic". All that dynamism
is handy sometimes, but it does get in the
way of improving efficiency.

Often discussions take place on python-dev
about ways to selectively limit the dynamism
to make some optimisation possible.

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Greg
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