Re: Roadmap to lily code

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Darius Blasband wrote:
> On the positive side, I guess - Nicolas might contradict me here - that 
> Python would have enabled far more people to hack with
> the internals., as the procedural-OO paradigm is more popular than 
> functional programming. Besides, as far as I know, I would assume
> that Python provides enough functional programming primitives for the 
> cases where you truly needed them.

Yes, that's also something to wonder about.

> > I do wonder how what the impact on performance would have been. Python 
> > objects are more heavyweight than SCMs, and the Garbage Collection 
> > opened a lot of possibilities in developing Lily.
> I though Python had a GC... Did I miss anything ?

It didn't 7 years ago.

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