Deposing Dictators

[Kemp Randy-W18971]

I agree that Python is fun and exciting.  In fact, I ran into this guy in the alley, who sold me a bunch of Python tee shirts, with a picture of a guy named Larry Wall on them.  Can anyone tell me if these are "official Python tee shirts?"  I hate to think that I got ripped off.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Weholt [mailto:thomas at gatsoft.no]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:39 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Deposing Dictators


I think Guido has done a great job so far. Python is by far the most
productive and fun programming language I've ever worked with.

Introducing new features is probably a good thing in terms of letting Python
evolve as a language, but I'm more concerned about the fact that each new
release of Python seem to be slower than the one before. Perhaps the
developers should focus more on performance and tuning of existing code
before adding more core features. I *do* think the inclusion of things like
pyunit and pydoc are good things, - very good indeed.

Extending the standard library and focusing on performance issues would
possibly be better. But hey, that's just me and I'm not known for using the
more advanced features of Python. The new features are probably aimed at
more trained programmers.

thomas