re bad leadership

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Jul 24 09:40:35 EDT 2001


In article <mailman.995979252.31899.python-list at python.org>, Chris
Gonnerman <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> writes
....
>I'm guessing here, but I'd bet from the tone of his postings that Robin
>means
>
>    Malevolent Dictator For Life
>
>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.
...
when the Gods smile upon us they are benevolent, when lighting strikes
they are malevolent. They are still Gods. Luckily we only have
dictators. Sometimes the dictatorship is good, sometimes bad it's still
a dictatorship.
-- 
Robin Becker



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