On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Wise people don't believe everything that is written on Wikipedia. > 2. The person who wrote that line in Python.org is a wise person.
Agreed. > You know what? Computer science buzzwords mean jack squat to me. I > don't give a horse's tail whether some people label it a fundamental > concept of object-oriented programming or not. I think it's a bad > thing. And it's a bad thing for exactly the reason I said: it gives > the library implementor the power to dictate to the user how they can > and can't use the library. The cultural impact that would have on the > community is far worse, IMHO, than any short-sighted benefits like > being able to catch an accidental usage of an internal variable. > Trust would be replaced by mistrust, and programming in Python would > go from a pleasant experience to constant antagonism. +1 > No thanks. "Software engineering" be damned. Python is better off > the way it is. Python ihmo is one of the best engineered programming languages and platform I have ever had the pleasure of working with and continue to! :) --JamesMills -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
