On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:32:31 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >> >>Why is it that it's (almost) always newbies with about five minutes' >>worth of experience with Python that come up with these grandiose plans >>to replace entire modules with a single function? > > Well, many great innovations in history have come from people who did > not have enough experience to know that what they were doing was > impossible...
So the old saw goes. Like most old saws, it's a load of codswallop. If you scratch beneath the surface, you soon discover that the people who supposedly "didn't know it was impossible" actually had a great deal of experience of what was and wasn't possible in the subject at hand. They might have been outsiders, but they were *knowledgeable* outsiders. e.g. the Wright Brothers weren't lone inventors working at a time when everyone knew powered flight was impossible, they were experienced engineers and glider-pilots who paid a lot of attention to research done by their many competitors. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
