[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 18, 10:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>>>> 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> 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 -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
