[Python-Dev] Re: Python 2.0 and Stackless (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Sat, 5 Aug 2000 19:46:00 -0400

Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>:

Christian has done an amazing piece of work, and he's gotten much praise from the community. I mean, if you are looking for a killer feature to distinguish 1.6 from 2.0, I'd know where to look...

I must say I agree. Something pretty similar to Stackless Python is going to have to happen anyway for the language to make its next major advance in capability -- generators, co-routining, and continuations.

I also agree that this is a more important debate, and a harder set of decisions, than the PEPs. Which means we should start paying attention to it now.

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