[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance

[Nick Coghlan]

On 28 January 2016 at 04:40, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> On 27.01.2016 12:16, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Umm, no, that's not how this works
> That's exactly how it works, Nick.
>
> INADA uses Python as I use crossroads each day. Daily human business.
>
> If you read his post carefully, you can discover that he just presented to
> you his perspective of the world. Moreover, I can assure you that he's not
> alone. As usual with humans it's not about facts or mathematically proven
> theorems but perception. It's more about marketing, little important details
> (or unimportant ones depending on whom you ask) and so on. Stating that he
> has a wrong perspective will not change anything.

The only part I disagree with is requesting that *other people* care
about marketing numbers if that's not something they're already
inclined to care about. I'm not in any way disputing that folks make
decisions based on inappropriate metrics, nor that it bothers some
folks that there are dozens of perfectly viable programming languages
people may choose to use instead of Python.

The fact remains that contributors to open source projects work on
what they want to work on or on what their employers pay them to work
on (for a lucky few, those are the same thing), so telling other
contributors that they're working on the "wrong thing" because their
priorities differ from our priorities is almost always going to be
irritating rather than helpful.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia