Op 2005-11-24, Simon Brunning schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 24 Nov 2005 10:21:51 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But only Guido, thinks like Guido and then even Guido may now think >> differently than he thought before. And what if Guido had a bad day >> when he came up with something, should we just adopt to what he >> had in mind without questioning them. > > No one is suggesting that Guido is perfect.
I disagree. They may not do so directly, but if each time a language change is suggested, someone answer that this is not Guido thinks about it or something similar, then Guido is certainly presented as the standard with which to compare. Putting al those responses toghether suggests Guido is perfect. > But he's consistently a > better judge of language design than I am, and in all likelihood > better than you, too. If you like Python, it's 'cos you like the > decisions he's made over many years. So, that makes that about a lot of things we think alike. Remains the question about whose ideas are better about the things we disagree. > Where my first impulse is to think that one of decisions is wrong, > nine times out of ten in time I'll come to find that I was wrong and > he was right. When I first came to python, I almost immediatly thought a number of things would improve the language. A number of them are already implemented or seem to be scheduled for 2.5. I'm not going to argue that that makes me a better language designer than Guido, but it does seem to be an indication I'm not that bad. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
