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		ltbarcly3 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpret... Why hasn't anyone just carbon copied the Python compiler (coincidentally the same name but unrelated to the Python language) from SBCL? The semantics of CL aren't that different from Python (the language).

gjvc 10 months ago [–]

The compiler is named Python, but has nothing to do with Python the language. I mean __really__. Way to keep your invention buried.

ltbarcly3 10 months ago | [–]

Because they started work on Python (the compiler) in 1980!

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