Hi Manlio and others,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 14:58, Manlio Perillo
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Shuttleworth-Python-needs-to-focus-on-fut...
"cloud computing, transactional memory and future multicore processors"
Multicore support is already "supported" in Python, if you use multiprocessing, instead of multithreading.
Well, I'm a huge Python fan myself, but multiprocessing is not really a solution as much as it is a workaround. Python as a language has no problem with multithreading and multicore support and has all primitives to do conventional shared-state parallelism. However, the most popular /implementation/ of Python sacrifies this for performance, it has nothing to do with the language itself. Stackless Python is an interesting implementation of the CSP+channels paradigm though. It has been quite successfully used for a few large projects.
And scalability is not a "real" problem, if you write RESTful web applications.
Of course scalability is a "real" problem, ask anyone who runs a big website. I don't see how RESTful design simply removes that problem. cheers, Arnar