I'm sending this to python-dev because I believe most or all of the reviewers for my PC9 paper are on this list. Paul, would you please forward to any who were not? First, my humble apologies for not having got my PC9 reviews in on time. I diligently read my assigned papers early, but I couldn't do the reviews early because of technical problems with my Foretec account -- and then I couldn't do them late because the pre-deadline crunch happened while I was on a ten-day speaking and business trip in Japan and California, with mostly poor or nonexistent Internet access. Matters were not helped by a nasty four-month-old problem in my personal life coming to a head right in the middle of the trip. Nor by the fact that the trip included the VA Linux Systems annual stockholders' meeting and the toughest Board of Directors' meeting in my tenure. We had to hammer out a strategic theory of what to do now that the dot-com companies who used to be our best companies aren't getting funded any more. Unfortunately, it's at times like this that Board members earn their stock options. Management oversight. Fiduciary responsibility. Mumble... Second, the feedback I received on the paper was *excellent*, and I will be making many of the recommended changes. I've already extended the discussion of "Why Python?" including addressing the weaknesses of Scheme and Prolog for this application. I have said more about uses of CML2 beyond the Linux kernel. I am working on a discussion of the politics of CML2 option, but may save that for the stand-up talk rather than the written paper. I will try to trim the CML2 language reference for the final version. (The reviewer who complained about the lack of references on the SAT problem should be pleased to hear that URLs to relevant papers are in fact included in the masters. I hope they show in the final version as rendered for publication.) -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. -- Justice William O. Douglas