alt Hacker News> the reference implementation.
The problem was he exposed too much of the implementation into the language itself, destroying its ability to be a simple reference implementation that others could re-implement.
> the reference implementation.
The problem was he exposed too much of the implementation into the language itself, destroying its ability to be a simple reference implementation that others could re-implement.
This is slowly being addressed now, each version of Python sees the c API become more opaque.