[Python-Dev] 2.4 news reaches interesting places (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at mail2.phd.pp.ru
Thu Dec 9 11:22:50 CET 2004

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:55:59PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

* Have python.org prominently feature an article of Python's use in high-performance environments. IIRC, somebody wrote a realtime voice over internet system and found that with good design, there was no speed issue. Also, the cellphone apps may make a good example.

+Games.

* Python's website has traditionally been self-centered, leaving others to have to make the case for their own products. Perhaps, it is time to change that. Those who really care about speed cannot make a balanced decision about Python without considering psyco, pyrex, numpy, and the like as part of the total development environment.

That's overreaction, I think. People always say this and that about python - python is slow, and python is not like java, and python does not have static type checks... And what? Should the webmasters adapt the site to every complain?

Oleg.

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