Re: Is a "real" C-Python possible?

In article <a324fa50-fde9-4173-81f3-f7e756bd46d7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
sturlamolden <sturlamolden@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Donald Knuth, one of the fathers of modern computer science, is famous
for stating that "premature optimization is the root of all evil in
computer science."

From my .sig database:

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting
Hoare)
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