I read some things earlier on the "make python go faster" and I tend to agree that it might be too difficult for their purposes. But geez, why another braces-and-semicolons language? Sure, they have Ken Thompson and Rob Pike working on it, but can't the world get beyond that? It just drives me bonkers. Those are not the source of the ONE TRUE SYNTAX. Besides, we all know parentheses are. :) - Travis B. Hartwell

As far as I can tell, Gudio and other Google employees continue to help make Python faster and better. - Gary Burd

Go looks like it's a compiled language, not interpreted. I thought Python was an interpreted language. - Jesse Stay

I think you're correct, Jesse. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

What's the difference between interpreted and compiled languages? - Cristo

Cristo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Jesse Stay

Jesse: "Theoretically, any language may be compiled or interpreted, so this designation is applied purely because of common implementation practice and not some underlying property of a language." - Cristo

Cristo: Correct. So it is more correct to talk about a particular implementation of a language being compiled or interpreted. - Travis B. Hartwell

I'm not an expert, but my guess is the reason not to use Python for this is the lack of static typing and ability to call system routines and access memory directly without writing glue code. Writing device drivers in Python would be a challenge. - Cristo

Oh, and also because Python doesn't have a switch statement. ;) - Cristo