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		gjvc 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpret... The compiler is named Python, but has nothing to do with Python the language. I mean __really__. Way to keep your invention buried.

ltbarcly3 11 months ago [–]

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

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