On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 8:26:41 PM UTC+5:30, Nick Coghlan wrote:
But if you perceive "Volunteers used their time as efficiently as
possible whilst fully Unicode enabling the CPython compilation toolchain, since it was a dependency that needed to be addressed in order to permit other more interesting changes, rather than an inherently rewarding activity in its own right" as "wrongheaded", you may want to spend some time considering the differences between community-driven and customer-driven development.
Hi Nick Sorry if I caused offense. Ive been using Python since around 2001 and its been a strikingly pleasant relationship. There have been surprisingly few times when python let me down in a class (Only exception I remember in all these years: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-July/609369.html ) Which is a generally better record than most other languages. So I remain grateful to Guido and the devs for this pleasing creation. My “wrongheaded” was (intended) quite narrow and technical: - The embargo on non-ASCII everywhere in the language except identifiers (strings and comments obviously dont count as “in” the language - The opening of identifiers to large swathes of Unicode widens as you say hugely the surface area of attack This was solely the contradiction I was pointing out.