PEP scepticism

[Guido van Rossum]

[Bernhard]
> What I've noticed is that I believe that the majority of people
> contributing to the decisions are not the average python programmer
> and therefore more likely to be in favour of things which might
> be unnecessary for the average user. I thought this was valuable to
> share so you can keep it in mind.

Well duh!

If we left the design of programming languages to the *average*
programmer, the field would never make progress.  Please give us
language designers some credit.  We're programmers and we know what
programmers need!

This whole thread has disappointed me.

> Apard from that I am grateful to the whole python development team
> and the community for its good work.

Thanks.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)