sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> writes: > > Python is a very clean language held back from widespread use by slow > > implementations. If Python ran faster, Go would be unnecessary. > > Google is a multi-billion dollar business. They are using Python > extensively. Yes I know about Unladen Swallow, but why can't they put > 1 mill dollar into making a fast Python?
I don't think Python and Go address the same set of programmer desires. For example, Go has a static type system. Some programmers find static type systems to be useless or undesirable. Others find them extremely helpful and want to use them them. If you're a programmer who wants a static type system, you'll probably prefer Go to Python, and vice versa. That has nothing to do with implementation speed or development expenditures. If Google spent a million dollars adding static types to Python, it wouldn't be Python any more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list