Source? With the bashing Python is getting because of the GIL, it surprises me that someone would switch to Python from elsewhere for any reasons related to threading.
Straight from PG:
"Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash."
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...
From Reddit: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
Source? With the bashing Python is getting because of the GIL, it surprises me that someone would switch to Python from elsewhere for any reasons related to threading.