On Nov 29, 2007, at 16:57 , jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
Yitzchak Gale writes:
Guido was forced to do something - someone had written a new Python interpreter, called "Stackless Python", in which every Python function was a Scheme-like continuation. People found this very, very scary. So Guido stopped it by introducing laziness, which could be made much less scary.
Give to Caesar... Someone, was Christian Tismer: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/proceedings/papers/tismers/ spcpaper. htm and I am doubtful about the statement that people found it very, very scary. Simply they - usually - felt no
The only person I've ever heard of who was in any sense "scared" of Stackless Python was GvR himself. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH