On 16 Nov, 05:09, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > Python is a very clean language held back from widespread use by slow > implementations. If Python ran faster, Go would be unnecessary.
That boggles me. NASA can find money to build a space telescope and put it in orbit. They don't find money to create a faster Python, which they use for analyzing the data. Google is a multi-billion dollar business. They are using Python extensively. Yes I know about Unladen Swallow, but why can't they put 1 mill dollar into making a fast Python? And then there is IBM and Cern's Blue Brain project. They can set up the fastest supercomputer known to man, but finance a faster Python? No... I saw this myself. At work I could get money to buy a € 30,000 recording equipment. I could not get money for a MATLAB license. It seems software and software development is heavily underfinanced. The big bucks goes into fancy hardware. But fancy hardware is not so fancy without equally fancy software. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
