[Python-Dev] Interesting blog post by Ben Sussman-Collins

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder:  comments
>> on python-checkins are *not* personal.  The goal is to make the
>> code better and/or gain better understanding.  We all make
>> mistakes, better to correct them early before they become big
>> problems..
> 
> And this reminder applies to reviewer *and* reviewees! (I know I've 
> made this mistake in both roles. :-)

I still love the last entry from Raymond's school of hard knocks [1]:

"""do everything right (formatting,
    procedure, profiling, testing, etc) and watch the Timbot
    come along five minutes later and improve your code
    making it faster, clearer, more conformant, more elegant,
    and also gel neatly with the vaguaries of memory allocation,
    cache performance, and compilers you've never heard of."""

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028725.html


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