On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:58:05 -0500 "Peter Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, you're straying so far from the original > thought behind this thread, and that is that the Python > website is using some terms differently than the majority > of people who will eventually use the site would > understand them. The number of people who are brilliant > enough to actually contribute to the development of the > Python language is miniscule compared to the potential > number of programmers out there who could adopt Python as > their language of choice, and thus consider themselves > 'Python developers'.
But the usual distinction (on any project web page) is "User" versus "Developer". Who is a "user" of Python? That would be you, right? It would be fairly silly to have a page only for people who have programs written in Python that they use (they're *your program*'s users, not *python*'s users). "Developer", in context, is clearly "one who *develops* python", not "one who *uses* python to develop programs". I don't see the ambiguity. I would be confused by the opposite usage. However, what you are complaining of is similar to the situation with Zope, where "user" actually does have a sane interpretation (basically "designer" or "scripter"), while a "developer" is someone working on the Zope core. People who "develop using Zope" are (still, I think) underrepresented -- there never was a "product developer" or "component developer" mailing list, I don't think. In that context, some people use a term like "Core Developer". It seems a little redundant to me, but perhaps it would be less ambiguous? -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
