Is Python moving too fast? (was Re: Is python commercializationazing? ...)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <39ad4c13.133044877 at news.telus.net>, David <root at 127.0.0.1> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:11:12 -0500 (CDT), Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>    1.  For the first time in it's 10+ year history, the language actually
>>        has a team of programmers led by Guido whose full-time job is to
>>        work on the language.
>
>I'm going to be exceedingly crass here, and suggest that when your
>full-time job is to work on the language, you're rather forced to make
>changes for the sake of changes, because otherwise you won't have a job.

There's an element of truth here.  At the same time, there's no reason
why -- in the case of a language like Python -- those changes have to be
*language* changes, rather than extensions to the libraries and
toolsets.
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