.. like me. Ok, this is what I understood why PyPy is important.
Writing programing languages and implementations (compilers, interpreters, JITs, etc) is hard. Not many people can do it from scratch and create something comparable to what's available today. But we need people with new aproaches, exploring new ideas (to boldly go where no hacker has gone before). Also, evolving the current Python language and implementation is not easy either. As it becomes more complex, it's hard for newcomers to comprehend it as a whole, and as it is still harder and harder to work on details without understanding the whole. What PyPy provides is, making this easier, thus allowing for: *rapid turnaround* of language features and implementation details - this enables easier experimentation and testing of wild ideas. Most of them will fail of course, but some will succed and some will succed and suprise (NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!). So that's how I see PyPy ... at the same time an interesting - let's call it - academic experiment, but also something very close to beeing usefull at the level of the current CPython. -- damjan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
