Python 3.0 unfit for serious work?

[John Nagle]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:
> 
>>     There's always the possiblity that Python 3 won't happen.  Look at
>>what happened with Perl 6.  That's been talked about for
>>seven years now.  The user base just wasn't interested.
>>Perl 5 was good enough, and users migrated to PHP for the
>>little stuff and other languages for the bigger stuff.
>>As Wikipedia says, "As of 2007, Perl 6 was still under development,
>>with no planned completion date."
> 
> 
> I like to think PyPy will replace CPython as the main Python
> implementation. 

     Well, something faster really should take over.  It's a bit
embarassing that the main implementation of Python is still a
pure interpreter.  Even Javascript has a JIT compiler now.
And it's tiny, under 1MB.

				John Nagle