Comment by nonameiguess

It's always amusing to see what Python has become thanks to NumPy and Django and how widely deployed it became when its intended purpose was always to be easy to understand, not performant. But just like JavaScript, people are going to hack it to death to make it fast anyway.

Guido on tail calls 16 years ago: https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/final-words-on-tail...