[Baypiggies] Guido's Blog: It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

In a former life, I was hanging out at a PHP users' group meeting, and
I asked Rasmus Lerdorf what he had against exceptions and why he had
left them out the language.  This was in the PHP 3 days.  He said, "I
just don't know how to implement them.  If you can figure out how to
do it, I'd be happy to include them."  Hahaha.  Ah, history!

(I'm not really trying to prove anything--it's just a funny story.)

-jj

On 9/14/07, Adam Ulvi <adamlulvi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I thought that telling people to "write it yourself if you want it so damn much" was the open-source version of Godwin's law.  ;-)
>
> Seriously, I wasn't aware the GIL was such a hot-button, I'll try to avoid bringing it up in polite company from now on.
>
> - A
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> To: Andy Wiggin <andywiggin at gmail.com>
> Cc: baypiggies at python.org
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:23:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] Guido's Blog: It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL
>
> On 9/13/07, Andy Wiggin <andywiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought the discussion was very interesting. I think true parallel
> > programming is the challenge of our time, so I'm quite disappointed
> > that the Python powers that be do not seem to feel any imperative to
> > address it. I've always been kind of assuming that Python would
> > provide a "pythonic" parallel programming paradigm that would "just
> > work" and be as elegant as the rest of the language.
>
> I'm sorry, but this attitude just really pisses me off. Python is the
> work of many people. If you want something to happen, make it happen.
> Don't wait for someone else to solve your problem for you.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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