[Python-3000] Special methods and interface-based type system

[Fredrik Lundh]

George Sakkis wrote:

> First off, I never implied someone's stupid just because we don't
> happen to agree on everything.

brushing off a carefully thought out design and the process that led
up to it with "it's just like picking between two random colors" is a 
pretty direct way of saying that you consider yourself so much smarter 
than the people involved that you don't even care about what they're doing.

> As for Mike's answer, I went back and
> read it again; please do the same. He doesn't address HCI reasons at
> all, it's a purely technical argument by pointing out an inconsistency
> of Java (which kinda distracts from the main point but that's ok).

HCI is all about picking the *right* technical solutions, though. 
Python's designed for humans, and humans aren't robots; the solutions 
you choose and the way you integrate them affect how people understands 
them and use them, on many different levels.  what Mike wrote about was 
one such case (which follows from 1b in GvR's post), where Python's way 
of doing things helped people avoid a certain real-life problem, without 
even noticing.

seriously, if you think that HCI (or for that matter, design) is only 
about what color you use for a technical solution designed by real 
engineers, you've pretty much missed the point of the whole field.  and 
you've pretty much missed the point of Python's design.

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