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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Mon Aug 14 21:13:50 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

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.

I had already added something to PEP 3099, but if you like that approach better, I'll add that to PEP 3000.

Georg

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