[Baypiggies] Guido's Blog: It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL

On 9/13/07, Andy Wiggin <andywiggin at gmail.com> wrote: > I thought the discussion was very interesting. I think true parallel > programming is the challenge of our time, so I'm quite disappointed > that the Python powers that be do not seem to feel any imperative to > address it. I've always been kind of assuming that Python would > provide a "pythonic" parallel programming paradigm that would "just > work" and be as elegant as the rest of the language. I'm sorry, but this attitude just really pisses me off. Python is the work of many people. If you want something to happen, make it happen. Don't wait for someone else to solve your problem for you. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)