Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-24 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Martin P. Hellwig" wrote: > Or you can argue that even when an argument is repeated indefinitely it > doesn't make it suddenly right. This is no good. It's a well known fact that anything I tell you three times is true. To demonstrate: Tim Rowe's post earlier in this thread was the funniest

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/23 Martin P. Hellwig : > Or you can argue that even when an argument is repeated indefinitely it > doesn't make it suddenly right. No, but it makes for a confirmation of Schluehr's law :-) -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Terry Reedy
Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr : Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is that we need to remove reference counting and the

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Tim Rowe wrote: 2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr : Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is that we need to remove reference counting and the

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/23 Benjamin Kaplan : > BTW, he said sufficiently sophisticated topic. Since there hasn't been an > extremely long post here yet, I don't know if this counts. Had I waited until the thread became long enough, somebody else would have already raised the issue -- you must surely know about Sc

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
I dub it Schluehr's law. On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 21:39 -0800, Kay Schluehr wrote: > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the > GIL. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > --

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tim Rowe wrote: > 2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr : > > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed > > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the > > GIL. > > Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is th

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/1/23 Kay Schluehr : > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the > GIL. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that the real issue here is that we need to remove reference counting and the GIL. -- Tim

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-23 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 23 Jan., 08:13, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Kay Schluehr wrote: > > > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was initially discussed > > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the > > GIL. > > Is this a variant of Godwin's Law for Python?

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-22 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Kay Schluehr wrote: Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. Is this a variant of Godwin's Law for Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Kay Schluehr wrote: > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the > GIL. +1 QOTW - Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.pytho

The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

2009-01-22 Thread Kay Schluehr
Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was the initially discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the GIL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list