PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk]

Robin Becker wrote:

> This article in salon 
>         http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/08/lehman/print.html
> 
> about Manny Lehman, my old department head, gives an insight into why
> people like myself are often afraid of software change.

And why Python is an exception

"""
Michael Godfrey, a University of Waterloo scientist, is equally hesitant 
but still finds the Lehman approach useful. In 2000, Godfrey and a fellow 
Waterloo researcher, Qiang Tu, released a study showing that several 
open-source software programs, including the Linux kernel and fetchmail, 
were growing at geometric rates, breaking the inverse squared barrier 
constraining most traditionally built programs. 
"""


                                 Graham