[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 05:06:03 EST 2016

On 26 January 2016 at 17:16, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Our universities are doing an awful job at getting "big picture thinking" across to our students.

That problem isn't specific to Japan - I'm not aware of anywhere that does a particularly good job of teaching developers not to get tribal about their programming language choice, and instead evaluate their options based on their specific problem, the team that will be working on it, and the pre-existing problem solving tools available in that ecosystem.

As a result, folks making programming language choices based on criteria that aren't actually relevant to the problem they're trying to solve is going to be a fact of life. While improving those kinds of metrics isn't a reason to do anything, it does count as an added bonus when it comes as a beneficial side effect of working on something else (such as the function specialisation infrastructure underpinning Victor's optimiser project).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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