Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Paul Rubin]

Luis Zarrabeitia <kyrie at uh.cu> writes:
> > > You'll find successful "monster" projects written in
> > > languages that are even more permissive than Python (C anyone ?),
> >
> > Could you name one written in C?  
> 
> hmm... http://kernel.org

That project may be successful in terms of having a lot of users, but
much less so in terms of code reliability (see all the CERT bulletins
about it).  Also, it is much smaller than 10 MLOC, I think.