Congratulations to Guide, Mike
Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Guido at Google: a message in THE public forum c.l.p. > > A confirmation by Martellibot, that Guido is IN FACT sitting 15m > distant from him; and everybody in Python knows where Martellibot has > his desk. > > Can it get more official than this? > > yeah: > a confirmation by Greg Stein @ Google within slashdot, that Guido is > working at Google. > > I am sure that more people in the Python community are reading c.l.p. > and /. than the washington post, the people affected have been > informed. > > I guess that's as formal and official as it can get. > > And concerning Guido, Python, community and leadership: > > Guido is the designer, the creator of Python. He has nearly unlimeted > trust in his design decisions: we all know, that he is THE gifted > language designer. His proclamations are accepted because he has proven > over time that he knows what's best for the language. > > Allow me to quote Greg Stein: > "Ha! Guido would quit in a heartbeat if you tried to make him manage > people. That just isn't where he's at. He's absolutely brilliant and > loves to write excellent code. Great. We're gonna let him do just that > :-)" > > So, Google with their geek-version of the Playboy-Mansion, free massage > parleurs, free lunch and dinner and best recruitment tactics on the > planet and the known universe will not be able to make Guido manage > people. > > Somehow the Python community managed itself through the years... Python > grew healthy and steadily; forked less then usual, inspired other > languages and got faster and faster and faster. > > Maybe only mediocre and less ideas need a great leader. Maybe a great > idea can lead for itself? > > Harald > > -- > GHUM Harald Massa > persuadere et programmare > Harald Armin Massa > Reinsburgstraße 202b > 70197 Stuttgart > 0173/9409607 > -- The greatest performance improvement occurs on the transition of from the non-working state to the working state. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
