REPOST: Re: Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Alex Martelli]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:48:13 +0000, phil hunt
<philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Python runs quickly on my 300 MHz box, which is 3 times slower
> > than the slowest PC you can buy today. It can only get more popular.
>
>     Well, if you take the measure of just pure Mhz.... 4 times slower.  ;)

FIVE or more.  1.5 GHz desktop machines are hardly news these days.


Alex

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