[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance

[Nick Coghlan]

On 26 January 2016 at 17:16, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Our universities are doing an awful job at getting "big picture thinking"
> across to our students.

That problem isn't specific to Japan - I'm not aware of *anywhere*
that does a particularly good job of teaching developers not to get
tribal about their programming language choice, and instead evaluate
their options based on their specific problem, the team that will be
working on it, and the pre-existing problem solving tools available in
that ecosystem.

As a result, folks making programming language choices based on
criteria that aren't actually relevant to the problem they're trying
to solve is going to be a fact of life. While improving those kinds of
metrics isn't a *reason* to do anything, it does count as an added
bonus when it comes as a beneficial side effect of working on
something else (such as the function specialisation infrastructure
underpinning Victor's optimiser project).

Cheers,
Nick.

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