On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > The knowhow, vision and skill is apparently very rare. On the product > management side, we have the famous case of Steve Jobs, who simply told > the engineers to go back to the drawing boards when he didn't like the > user experience. Most others would have simply surrendered to the > mediocre designs and shipped the product. > > We need similar code sanity management. Developers are given much too > much power to mess up the source code. That's why "legacy" is considered > a four-letter word among developers.
So what do you do with a huge program? Do you send it back to the developers and say "Do this is less lines of code"? CPython is a large and complex program. How do you propose doing it "right"? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list