The big shots

[Steve Holden]

castironpi at gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 18, 10:26 pm, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>> In article <7xmypx61z6.... at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
>> Paul Rubin  <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>>> castiro... at gmail.com:
>>>>> Some of the ideas that have been proposed on Python-ideas as well as
>>>>> Python, have received partial evaluation from the alphas.
>>>> What do you mean by "alphas"?
>>> Alpha test releases are the round of test distributions before the
>>> beta tests, which come before the release candidates which come before
>>> the final release.  
>> Interesting, but I would bet that castironpi actually is referring to
>> "alpha males" (particularly in the context of "big shots"); however, your
>> confusion is precisely why I called it out.  Incoherent writing rarely
>> flies well in this community (which is one reason why I love Python!).
>> --
>> Aahz (a... at pythoncraft.com)           <*>        http://www.pythoncraft.com/
>>
>> "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of    
>> indirection."  --Butler Lampson
> 
> Who you callin' denigrates?  Ahem.  You think your ships don't
> sink?  ;)
> 
Humor. Arf arf.

> The problem did not seem to be miscommunication, rather bias.
> 
> What part of, "No one took the train before it was invented," do you
> not understand?
> 
The problem with this complaint is you simply seem to be saying "there's 
a better language out there somewhere". No clue as to where it is, no 
clue as to how it might be approached. Merely a suggestion that adding 
randomly suggested features to Python, that are currently rejected for 
what appear to me to be mostly sound reasons, will somehow lead us to 
these undiscovered treasures.

> No one climbed Mount Everest before it was discovered, and it wasn't
> the tallest mountain until then either.

It *was* the tallest mountain - it existed before its discovery, and its 
"discovery" wasn't news to the Sherpas who had been living on it for 
hundreds of years.

regards
  Steve
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