re bad leadership

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 24-Jul-2001 Chris Gonnerman wrote:
 >  ----- Original Message ----- 
 >  From: "Mikael Olofsson" <mikael at isy.liu.se>
 > > 
 > > On 23-Jul-2001 Robin Becker wrote:
 > >  >  MDFL you are wrong! Give up gracefully now!
 > > 
 > > I've seen BDFL referring to GvR, and I know the interpretation of that.
 > > Here, obviously, MDFL suddenly referres to the very same GvR. What's
 > > with that M? 
 >  
 >  I'm guessing here, but I'd bet from the tone of his postings that Robin
 >  means
 >  
 >      Malevolent Dictator For Life

Of course! My English is obviously not good enough.

 >  While I'm not happy with Guido over this change (because it makes cross-
 >  version code very ugly, and introduces errors in meaning that may be hard
 >  to detect) I would not call him such a rude name.

Neither would I. I always thought of "GvR is the BDFL" as an axiom, 
which means that whatever he does regarding Python is benevolent.

/Mikael

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