PEP status and python-dev summaries

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3dd7cr8rsl.fsf at ute.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Andrew Kuchling  <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>
>python-dev is the equivalent of perl5-porters.  However, Perl hasn't
>previously had a formal mechanism such as PEPs; a bunch of RFCs were
>written for Perl 6, but who knows if such formality will continue once
>actual development starts?  It seems like a curious cultural
>difference; c.l.python posters often suggest new language features,
>while in the Perl and Tcl groups, there are very few postings which
>suggest language changes.

I can't speak for Tcl, but in the case of Perl, there are few enough
people outside the core development group who actually understand Perl
to suggest changes in the language.
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