George Sakkis wrote: > After 175 replies (and counting), the only thing that is clear is the > controversy around this PEP. Most people are very strong for or > against it, with little middle ground in between. I'm not saying that > every change must meet 100% acceptance, but here there is definitely a > strong opposition to it. Accepting this PEP would upset lots of people > as it seems, and it's interesting that quite a few are not even native > english speakers.
But the positions are clear, I think. Open-Source people are against it, as they expect hassle with people sending in code or code being lost as it can't go public as-is. Teachers are for it as they see the advantage of having children express concepts in their native language. In-house developers are rather for this PEP as they see the advantage of expressing concepts in the way the "non-techies" talk about it. That's about all I could extract as arguments. To me, this sounds pretty much like something people and projects could handle on their own once the PEP is accepted. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
