[Python-Dev] introducing the experimental pyref wiki

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Mon May 1 21:27:48 CEST 2006


[A.M. Kuchling]
> ...
> (Or are the two goals -- completeness and readability --
> incompossible, unable to be met at the same time by one document?)

No, but it's not easy, and it's not necessarily succinct.  For an
existence proof, see Guy Steele's "Common Lisp the Language".   I
don't think it's a coincidence that Steele worked on the readable "The
Java Language Specification" either, or on the original Scheme spec. 
Google should hire him to work on Python docs now ;-)


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