[Python-Dev] Dictionary sparseness

[Guido van Rossum]

> No thanks.  I've paid my dues and I hope I will *NEVER* again have to
> work with a system that thinks it's so smart it doesn't need my advisory
> input -- or at least not on anything that's as performance-crucial as
> those Fortran programs were [...]

I severely doubt that any Python apps are as performance-critical as
those Fortran programs were.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)