[chalst]

No GC, coupled with Guido's ignorant comments about how superior refcounts were.

Wacky three namespace scoping.

Back in those days, Python seemed cleaner than it was.

[kzrdude]

In a way that's still true. I'm thinking of `nonlocal` and attribute lookup which is all too complicated.

[DrCatbox]

And the GIL, in a world of multi-core processors with each capable of several threads... a single process is meh.