Wet Dream--python to native compiler

[Fredrik Lundh]

Aaron K. Johnson wrote:

> > 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.

users don't write compilers.

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