PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Robin Becker]

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.

'''Included within the new set of laws are the Law of Continuing Growth
("The functional capability of E-type systems must be continually
increased to maintain user satisfaction over the system lifetime") and
the Law of Declining Quality ("The quality of E-type systems will appear
to be declining unless they are rigorously adapted, as required, to take
into account changes in the operational environment"). For added
measure, Lehman has also thrown in the Principle of Software
Uncertainty, which states, "The real world outcome of any E-type
software execution is inherently uncertain with the precise area of
uncertainty also unknowable."'''


-- 
Robin Becker