Christian Tismer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Kay Schluehr wrote: > > > >>holger krekel wrote: > >> > >>>Welcome to PyPy 0.6 > >>>-------------------- > >>> > >>>*The PyPy Development Team is happy to announce the first > >>>public release of PyPy after two years of spare-time and > >>>half a year of EU funded development. The 0.6 release > >>>is eminently a preview release.* > >> > >>Congratulation to You and Your team! > >> > >>PyPy is really awesome and if it succeeds in speed demands after the > >>translation phase I believe that the project will shift the power > >>within the Python community on the long run. > > > > > > Could you please explain this statement? Who will gain power, and who > > will lose it? > > The Python community will gain power, and nobody will loose some. > The big win is that we gain a new flexibility that did not > exist before, even if PyPy should completely miss its speed > promises. Having an extremely flexible implementation in a > very high-level language (which happens to be Python) enables > possibilities which have not been seen, before.
But not only flexibility IN the current language but also beyond it. It's not anymore clear what the language as a set of well-defined syntactical and semantical rules really is if You can change the semantics in an arbitrary module representing an object-space. I currently don't know how modular the parser is but adding syntax-rules should not be that hard either. Once You get enough speed out of the PyPy-runtime and the community shifts to it the PEP-process degenerates in the view of a PyPythonista to discussions about aspects of the std-objectspace and language design patterns. There will be some CPython compliance - that's all. Empowering the community means beheading the BDFL and that's currently not only a person but a principle. Well, maybe that's o.k. but at least inevitable and Guido finally finds the time to clip roses, writes his memoirs, educates children and polishs his medals of honour. Regards, Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
