Paul Rubin wrote:
> John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> There's always the possiblity that Python 3 won't happen. Look at
>>what happened with Perl 6. That's been talked about for
>>seven years now. The user base just wasn't interested.
>>Perl 5 was good enough, and users migrated to PHP for the
>>little stuff and other languages for the bigger stuff.
>>As Wikipedia says, "As of 2007, Perl 6 was still under development,
>>with no planned completion date."
>
>
> I like to think PyPy will replace CPython as the main Python
> implementation.
Well, something faster really should take over. It's a bit
embarassing that the main implementation of Python is still a
pure interpreter. Even Javascript has a JIT compiler now.
And it's tiny, under 1MB.
John Nagle
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