On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:04:58 +0300 anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Once again, you're completely ignoring all existing knowledge and expertise on open collaboration and trying to reinvent the world. It's *not going to happen*. It's too boring to live in a world of existing knowledge and expertise, Frankly, this one fragment is enough to stop me reading further. Who wants to learn from the vast and broad experience when you could simply randomize the rules of reality through ignorance and stubbornness? If everybody would think like this, the world will never learn about anti-patterns, and the software craftmanship collapsed in astonishing agony some years ago. If it doesn't make it clear - it is not randomizing - it is putting beliefs to the test asking for the current status.
Ah, I think I see Anatoly's problem here. It's an impedance mismatch. He wants to discuss language/platform/environment ideas. This is valuable work, and he does have some interesting ideas. It definitely has a place in the world. It's just that this isn't that place. Python has a set of objectives for the language that have been around long enough to qualify as "traditions". As such, it's not a good place to experiment with arbitrary changes to things, because you keep running afoul of the traditions.
Common guys, what's wrong with you? It is just an idea, not a proposal or scientific paper.
Yes, but it's an idea that ignores the traditions of the environment you're proposing it for. If you're serious about discussing ideas about changing Python, you need to do the groundwork of understanding those traditions, and try and make sure your ideas don't collide with them. It doesn't matter whether or not they're good ideas, if they clash with the traditions, they aren't going to happen. You need to figure that out yourself, and not ask us to do it for you. If, on the other hand, you want to talk about language/platform/environment design ideas without that restriction, then you need a different forum. Just because you happen to be working in Python doesn't mean that a Python forum is appropriate for them, any more than discussing (say) drone control programs would be appropriate in a Python forum just because I happen to be writing it in Python. If you're somewhere in between the two, maybe a PyPy forum would be more appropriate? I dunno. I'm sorry I can't really recommend a good forum for you. The last time I was seriously interested in such things, Python hadn't been released yet. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org