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No GC, coupled with Guido's ignorant comments about how superior refcounts were. Wacky three namespace scoping. Back in those days, Python seemed cleaner than

by chalst 15y ago

No GC, coupled with Guido's ignorant comments about how superior refcounts were. Wacky three namespace scoping. Back in those days, Python seemed cleaner than it was.

kzrdude 15y ago
In a way that's still true. I'm thinking of `nonlocal` and attribute lookup which is all too complicated.
- DrCatbox 15y ago
  And the GIL, in a world of multi-core processors with each capable of several threads... a single process is meh.