[Python-Dev] OT: A Day in the Life of p5p

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:44:33 -0700


Re: Performance

At the very least this readlines() optimization should be in FileInput
which was invented, after all, in order to compete with Perl.
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Re: Inline Unicode smily faces

Bill and Mark-Andre, you rock. Another feature stolen from Perl.

If only it were as easy to steal cleanliness and elegance. :)
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Re: GC

On by default in beta would be peachy.

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 Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus
The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it 
gave rise made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that 
made the modern world possible.
	- The Advent of the Algorithm (pending), by David Berlinski