In a message of Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:01:17 +0200, Antonio Cuni writes: <snip> > >Finally, a note which is not related with the work plan but to a >question that appeared in the logs; someone asked whether we want to >"sell" RPython as a stand-alone product. >Last sunday I gave a PyPy talk at Pycon italy and, surprisingly enough, >RPython was perceived as the only (or the most relevant) usable product >of the pypy project. I tried hardly to explain that rpython is basically >only an accident and not very usable, but people are still impressed by >the 300000% speedup. >It would be interesting to know if this perception is world-wide or only >limited to the attendants of my talk (maybe because I didn't stress >enough the pros of the other pypy goals or the cons of rpython). > >ciao Anto
I don't think it is you. I think that most people are not very sophisticated in their appreciation for computer langauges. Culturally deprived, poor things. :-) Maybe we need to run some 'pypy appreciation courses'. :-) I suspect the designers of the Ferrari have the same problem. They probably want to discuss engine-design and Italian styling with their would-be customers. Laura _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
