[Python-Dev] User's complaints

[Guido van Rossum]

Not to mention the cost to documentation and books everywhere --
updating our own docs is only the tip of the iceberg. And then
updating the users' brains is an even bigger job... (Though at least
it is highly parallellizable. :-)

--Guido

On 7/10/06, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:13:53PM +0200, Armin Rigo wrote:
> > didn't draw much applause.  It certainly gave me the impression that
> > many changes in Python are advocated and welcomed by only a small
> > fraction of users.
>
> The benefits of changes are usually clear, but I don't think the costs
> of changes are fully assessed.  python-dev considers the cost of
> changes to CPython's implementation, but I don't think the cost
> changes to Jython, IronPython, or PyPy are taken into account here.
> PyPy probably has enough representatives here who would squawk if
> something was difficult, but I don't think Jython or IronPython do.
>
> I think if we assessed those costs fully, the bar for changes to the
> language would be a good deal higher.
>
> --amk
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