{"id":569,"date":"2003-07-17T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=569"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"oscon_2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/oscon_2003\/","title":{"rendered":"OSCON 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"O&rsquo;Reilly has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlamp.com\/pub\/a\/onlamp\/2003\/07\/09\/oscon_report.html\">news<\/a> of everyone&rsquo;s favorite scripting languages. The state of the onion is&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.com\/pub\/a\/2003\/07\/16\/soto2003.html\">just fine<\/a>. Guido doesn&rsquo;t say why he thinks CPython will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidhe.org\/~dan\/blog\/archives\/000220.html\">faster<\/a> than Parrot\/Python. Parrot is supposed to be fast, and the existing CPython is slow compared to other similar languages. So I don&rsquo;t know whether he thinks there&rsquo;s something intrinsically slow about Python, whether he&rsquo;s just pessimistic about Parrot for some unknown reason, or whether he&rsquo;s going to dramatically speed up CPython. Well, the competition should do everyone good. Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyist.net\/~matz\/slides\/oscon2003\/mgp00001.html\">Matz<\/a> was  funny and insightful, as usual, in his talk about linguistic determination and programming language design: &ldquo;While you program to solve your problem, I program your brain to work better.&rdquo;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&rsquo;Reilly has news of everyone&rsquo;s favorite scripting languages. The state of the onion is&hellip;just fine. Guido doesn&rsquo;t say why he thinks CPython will be faster than Parrot\/Python. Parrot is supposed to be fast, and the existing CPython is slow compared to other similar languages. So I don&rsquo;t know whether he thinks there&rsquo;s something intrinsically slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}