On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:22 PM, <thmpsn....@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> >> 2. Have there been any suggestions in the past to rewrite Python's >> mainstream implementation in C++ (or why wasn't it done this way from >> the beginning)? > > I'm not a CPython dev (I bet one will pipe in), but I would speculate > it's because C++ is so much more complicated and a bit less portable > than C.
I'm not a CPython dev either, but I concur with this statement. cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
