UserLinux chooses Python as "interpretive language" of choice

[Skip Montanaro]

    John> The world changes, and ideas that seemed to be perfectly
    John> appropriate five or ten years ago may no longer be such. Small
    John> languages with a limited audience have a perfect right to be as
    John> quirky or as "pure" as their authors want. Once they get beyond
    John> that point, there's a bit of social responsibility involved in
    John> addressing common problems.

So fork Python and show how it could be done better.  If that's the case,
people will either drift over to Python-JR, or (some of) your ideas will
find their way back into Python-GvR.

Or, as in the Emacs/XEmacs split, darts may be thrown across the void for
the forseeable future. ;-)

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