On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > The story of makefiles is a warning of the dark side to "release early, > release often", and the dangers of using alpha software in production: > > [quote] > Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't tried > either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After getting > myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did something simple > with the pattern newline-tab. It worked, it stayed. And then a few weeks > later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and > I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history. > -- Stuart Feldman > [end quote]
Perhaps. Or perhaps it's a warning about the importance of version 0 of a piece of software: you "release early, release often", but you start with version 0.1, where the standard backward compat guarantees don't hold. You get some feedback, and then when you finally release version 1.0, you start promising not to mess people's stuff up; but before that, anything might change. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
