Terry Reedy wrote: > "Cameron Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *DevSource* profiles "The State of the Scripting Universe" in > > <URL: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp >. > > Interesting quote from Guido: "If the same effort were poured into speeding > up Python as Sun devoted to Java, Python would be better than Java in every > respect."
Maybe companies such as Intel, IBM, and Sun would devote resources to optimizing Python on their hardware if the language had an ISO standard, as do C, C++, and Fortran, and were less of a moving target. OTOH, that could slow the development of the language. I have wondered why the "dynamic" languages such as Perl and Python tend not to have ISO standards. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
