Towards faster Python implementations - theory

[Paul Boddie]

On 11 May, 18:04, John Nagle <n... at animats.com> wrote:
>
>      Another problem is that if the language is defined as
> "whatever gets put in CPython", that discourages other
> implementations.  The language needs to be standards-based.

Indeed. This was suggested by one of the speakers at last year's
EuroPython with reference to the various proposals to remove map,
reduce, lambda and so on from the language. The opinion was that if
Python implementations change and leave the users either on
unsupported releases or with the work of migrating their code
continuously and/or to features that they don't find as intuitive or
appropriate, some people would rather migrate their code to a language
which is standardised and which can remain agreeable for the
foreseeable future.

Paul