first release of PyPy

[Alex Stapleton]

The question still remains, can it run it's self? ;)

On 20 May 2005, at 23:50, Kay Schluehr wrote:

>
> holger krekel wrote:
>
>> Welcome to PyPy 0.6
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>>
>> *The PyPy Development Team is happy to announce the first
>> public release of PyPy after two years of spare-time and
>> half a year of EU funded development.  The 0.6 release
>> is eminently a preview release.*
>>
>
> Congratulation to You and Your team!
>
> PyPy is really awesome and if it succeeds in speed demands after the
> translation phase I believe that the project will shift the power
> within the Python community on the long run. There are moments I'm
> almost shocked about it and think about the fate of other programming
> programming languages like LISP. PyPy can be resolved to "Python in
> Python" but also "Python multiplied/powered by itself" which is much
> more triumphant. A short review of the 'thunks' objspace example gives
> me the impression that the language development process as we know it
> comes to an end and makes a kind of transition. This is both very
> exciting and dangerous, like every philosophical event.
>
> Regards,
> Kay
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