On Nov 29, 2007, at 16:57 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yitzchak Gale writes:
Guido was forced to do something - someone had written
a new Python interpreter, called "Stackless Python",
in which every Python function was a Scheme-like continuation.
People found this very, very scary. So Guido stopped
it by introducing laziness, which could be made much
less scary.
Give to Caesar...
Someone, was Christian Tismer:
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/proceedings/papers/tismers/
spcpaper. htm
and I am doubtful about the statement that people found it very,
very scary. Simply they - usually - felt no
The only person I've ever heard of who was in any sense "scared" of
Stackless Python was GvR himself.
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