From: justin at linus.mitre.org (Justin Sheehy)
Date: 23 Apr 1999 22:09:54 -0400
Subject: Python too slow for real world
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mlh at idt.ntnu.no (Magnus L. Hetland) writes:

> (And... How about builtin regexes in P2?)

Um, why?  I don't see any need at all for them to move from
module-status to core-language-status.  

The only way that I could understand the desire for it would be if one 
wanted to write little scripts that were basically just some control
flow around regexes and string substitution.  That is, something that
looked like most of the programs written in that other P language.  ;-)

In all seriousness, what reason do you have for making that
suggestion?  I am willing to believe that there might be a good reason 
to do so, but it certainly isn't immediately obvious.

-Justin





