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

[Michael Spalinski]

>>>>> "David" == David  <root at 127.0.0.1> writes:

    David> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:11:12 -0500 (CDT), Skip Montanaro
    David> <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.

    David> I'm going to be exceedingly crass here, and suggest that when
    David> your full-time job is to work on the language, you're rather
    David> forced to make changes for the sake of changes, because
    David> otherwise you won't have a job.
 
Not necessarily: they could work on libraries and extensions, on
programming tools. They could also work on the implementation. Changing the
language itself in controversial ways is not the obvious direction, given
how successful Python is in its present form.

--M.