[Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling (Guido van Rossum)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Guido van Rossum writes:

 > AFAIK the term comes from a piece by Andrew Kuchling titled "Python warts".
 > The topic now has its own wiki page:
 > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts
 > 
 > I believe that most of the warts are not even design missteps -- they are
 > emergent misfeatures, meaning nobody could have predicted how things would
 > work out.

More like surgical scars than warts, as I see it.