Going the PL/1 way

[Miklós]

"Jarek Zgoda" <jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl> wrote in message
news:cf3b56$gt6$1 at nemesis.news.tpi.pl...
> Miklós wrote:
>
> > Yes, I'm thorougly annoyed with creeping featurism.
>
> Man, you steal my thoughts!
>
> Most of features that made into Python after 2.1 are "just that", like
> "nobody has it, so we should" or "somebody has it, so we would too". The
> only thing I welcomed in 2.3 was some interpreter speedup, not new
features.
>
> Is it really so much needed feature, that "clean, compact and readable"
> rule should be broken? Damn, to hell with decorators, noone I know even
> knows what it can be good for.
>
> Come on, guys, fix real problems like interpreter thread safety, improve
> performance, don't make us, "real-world software developers", screaming
> with every new release, please.
>

Yes, this was exactly my point. Performance and GIL. Those are problems.
And problems must be solved.  After that add features... if they are really
needed.

Miklós


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