[Python-3000] Python/C++ question (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 14 20:13:56 CEST 2006

On 8/13/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Talin wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On 8/9/06, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote: >> For the majority of Python developers it's probably the other way >> around. It's been 15 years since I wrote C++, and unlike C, that >> language has changed a lot since then... >> >> It would be a complete rewrite; I prefer doing a gradual >> transmogrification of the current codebase into Py3k rather than >> starting from scratch (read Joel Spolsky on why). > > BTW, Should this be added to PEP 3099?

Yes, why not.

Although perhaps it makes more sense to add something positive to PEP 3000, e.g.

Implementation Language

Python 3000 will be implemented in C, and the implementation will be derived as an evolution of the Python 2 code base. This reflects my views (which I share with Joel Spolsky) on the dangers of complete rewrites. Since Python 3000 as a language is a relatively mild improvement on Python 2, we can gain a lot by not attempting to reimplement the language from scratch. I am not against parallel from-scratch implementation efforts, but my own efforts will be directed at the language and implementation that I know best.

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