David Brown wrote:
As far as the two directions, there is a difference. Python is pretty much defined as an interpreted language. There are people trying to make compilers for it, but it's hard. Guido made a lot of design tradeoffs in a manner that works ok for interpretation but doesn't lend itself well to compilation.
I'm not convinced. People said the same thing about Lisp for a lot of years. After really smart people had 20 years to work on it, people got pretty good at compiling it.
Python has had nowhere near that level of academic effort thrown at it yet. I'm not sure it ever will.
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