They are contrasting with languages where true is true and 1 is 1; but true is not 1, and 1 is not true.
> Which is weird, how exactly?
Sometimes if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it can still not be a duck.
> You can go a lot further than five minutes in Python without having to worry about threads at all
Unless you specifically want to do multithreading.
> the worst thing the GIL does is deny you the multi-core processing you thought you were going to get.
That is the worst thing because I wanted that multi-core processing, that's the whole reason I wanted to do multithreading.
They are contrasting with languages where true is true and 1 is 1; but true is not 1, and 1 is not true.
> Which is weird, how exactly?
Sometimes if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it can still not be a duck.
> You can go a lot further than five minutes in Python without having to worry about threads at all
Unless you specifically want to do multithreading.
> the worst thing the GIL does is deny you the multi-core processing you thought you were going to get.
That is the worst thing because I wanted that multi-core processing, that's the whole reason I wanted to do multithreading.