Wet Dream--python to native compiler

[Aaron K. Johnson]

In message <mailman.1039843279.31621.python-list at python.org>, Laura Creighton
wrote:
> > Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> wrote in message 
> > 
> > > As I recall, last time we discussed this, we decided that the lack of
> > > an army of grad students at a time when it was possible to get a
> > > Masters or a Phd for writing a compiler was responsible.  
> > 
> > Why isn't that possible anymore?
> > 
> > Steve
> > -- 
>  
> 1. Universities aren't impressed by Compiler Writing any more. (Been
>    done before, they say).
> 
> 2. There are too many languages, so any given Language gets a fraction
>    of what they would have got when 'there was Lisp ....  and there
>    was everything else'.  <Smiling warmly at the Lispers who are saying,
>    huh? But _nothing_ has changed ...>

It seems that if a relatively underused language like ML could have a NATIVE
CODE compiler, than so could python, with its large user base.

-Aaron.