PyPy for dummies

[Paddy]

On Mar 30, 1:10 am, Damjan <gdam... at gmail.com> wrote:
> .. like me.
>
> Ok, this is what I understood why PyPy is important.
>
> Writing programing languages and implementations (compilers, interpreters,
> JITs, etc) is hard. Not many people can do it from scratch and create
> something comparable to what's available today. But we need people with new
> aproaches, exploring new ideas (to boldly go where no hacker has gone
> before).
>
> Also, evolving the current Python language and implementation is not easy
> either. As it becomes more complex, it's hard for newcomers to comprehend
> it as a whole, and as it is still harder and harder to work on details
> without understanding the whole.
>
> What PyPy provides is, making this easier, thus allowing for:
> *rapid turnaround* of language features and implementation details - this
> enables easier experimentation and testing of wild ideas. Most of them will
> fail of course, but some will succed and some will succed and suprise
> (NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!).
>
> So that's how I see PyPy ... at the same time an interesting - let's call
> it - academic experiment, but also something very close to beeing usefull
> at the level of the current CPython.
>
> --
> damjan

It is also European funding for an open source project with sprints.
I'm sure some eurocrat will be dissecting the project to see if it is
aa good way to fund technical projects.

- Paddy.