[Python-Dev] Application for developer status

[Eric S. Raymond]

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
> As an aside: I would be pumpld about getting a generic lexer into the
> Python distribution. Greg Ewing was working on one and there are various
> others out there. 
> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/

Yes, this would be a good thing.  I'm also talking with John Aycock about
his elegant SPARK toolkit for generating Earley-algorithm parsers.  Once that
comes out of beta, I would consider it a core-library candidate.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather
startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much
less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone,
convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without
restriction.  Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended,
perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever
before.
        -- Colin Greenwood, in the study "Firearms Control", 1972