lost interest?

[Tim Hammerquist]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> graced us by uttering:
>     Alex> If it encourages more reuse of code in module A by the author of
>     Alex> module B, I think it would be a VERY good influence "in the Python
>     Alex> world".  Why *shouldn't* the useful 3rd-party modules we use be
>     Alex> free to rely on other useful 3rd-party modules yet?!
> 
> Python authors are free to rely on any modules they like, third-party or
> otherwise.  That they don't suggests to me that there's generally fairly
> little need to do that, at least for widely used packages.

That may be true, but it just seems so hard to believe that, in so many
non-interdependent modules, no one's reinventing the wheel in the least.

OTOH, I concede that Python is simply more conducive to rational
module/object hierarchies than is perl.

Tim Hammerquist
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