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It will be nearly impossible to find someone who disagree with him getting this award IMHO. That's so well deserved. Slow clapping time here.

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<HN> hold my beer!

Just wait a few minutes. I can already see one.

Mmmmh I don't disagree, but python is a little slow.

Python is my favorite language, but I wish it was faster.

Simplicity, speed, abstraction: Choose two

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/57904/why-do-we-have-...

chez scheme, choose one.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that interpreted vs compiled has far more to do with python's speed then abstraction in this case. Also the post you linked literally states that abstraction doesn't necessarily mean slow.

If making a language compiled is a magic bullet for speed, why isn't every language compiled? Because they have different levels of abstraction that lend their implementation to compilation or interpretation. You're just citing a specific example of one of the tradeoffs made in the language design that falls along those three axes.

This "choose Two" mantra captures essence of tradeoffs among the modern popular programming languages Go, Python, Java, C++, C, JavaScript

> Simplicity, speed, abstraction: Choose two

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/57904/why-do-we-have-...

Python is an open source project with well defined rules for evolution. If you want it to be faster, make it so (following the rules).

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