[Pyrex] Should Pyrex be in standard Python?

[Paul Prescod]

Let me add a bit more hyperbole to my previous post.

In my opinion, Pyrex has as much potential as Python.

They are yin and yang. Interpreted and compiled. Dynamic/Static. 
Inefficient/optimized. High-level and (relatively) low-level. But that's 
too simplistic a way to look at it, because at one end of its usage 
spectrum Pyrex IS basically Python.

So Pyrex and Python are two halves OF THE SAME LANGUAGE. A single 
language that spans damn-near the whole application development gamut. 
It will take years for the languages to merge (if ever) but it seems to 
me to be a logical end-goal. I should be able to start a program and 
with no effort designate functions to be compiled instead of interpreted.

  Paul Prescod