Deposing Dictators

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 1 09:21:42 EDT 2001


"Jeff Shannon" <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3B66F89E.77E64413 at ccvcorp.com...
    ...
> problem, that inspired such FUD, was the lack of a clearly explained
rationale
    ...
> In short, I think we should all try to have a little more faith in Guido,
even
if we don't
> agree with all of his proposals.  His design instincts have proved to be
right,

Right.  Guido's forte is doing the right thing, as opposed to
rationalizing WHY it's right.  I'd rather have the right
thing, with weak rationale, than a botch that's rationalized
to perfection (which is what would happen if _I_ were the
BDFL, perish the thought).

[Always excepting print>> of course...:-)]


Alex






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