On 7/14/2018 3:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:19:36 +0300, Mikhail V wrote:
From Marko's check-list:
[ ] The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality
Many Python programmers -- perhaps the majority -- know more than one
programming language, enjoy some of them, and can appreciate their
strengths and the differences between them.
Though I mostly only use Python now, I have used over 20 languages.
Most of the core devs are competent C programmers.
A good thing. I once was but to focus on Python instead. To work on
IDLE, I had to learn tkinter, which is effective a different language.
Numpy and Django, for instance, are also effectively different languages
implemented in Python.
I don't know what percentage of Python
programmers know only Python, and no other language, but my guess is that
outside of school kids learning the language because their school makes
it compulsory, it's probably a small percentage.
The Python community has a long and glorious history of borrowing ideas
from other languages, without slavishly following them. Neither "not
invented here" nor "never invented here".
A review of other languages is a routine part of PEP discussions, and
sometimes included in the PEP.
These are not the characteristics of "us-versus-them".
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