On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:57:32 +0200, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
No: I *am* an "in-house" developer. The argument is not public/open-source against private/industrial. As I said in some of my earlier posts, any code can pass through many people in its life, people not having the same language. I dare to say that starting a project today in any other language than english is almost irresponsible: the chances that it will get at least read by people not talking the same language as the original coders are very close to 100%, even if it always stays "private". -- python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
