Stability and change

[Robin Becker]

In article <uDDr8.66496$S52.2342405 at news2.tin.it>, Alex Martelli
<aleax at aleax.it> writes
><posted & mailed>
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>Guido van Rossum wrote:
>        ...
>> About the change rate in general: it's hard to find the proper pace.
>        ...
>> for faster change.  I have to pick a middle ground (and it's easier to
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>Linus Thorvalds seems to have done pretty well with picking TWO middle 
>grounds -- two parallel tracks for Linux, "stable" and "experimental".
>
>Without the former he'd have lost the commercial interests, and "normal
>people" who DO need SOME level of stability; without the latter, a crucial 
>hard-core of neophile hackers might have gone away in search of other, more 
>dynamic projects.  With both tracks, things seems to have been smoother.
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>Why don't we start thinking of a similarly dual-tracked Python -- one
>track aiming at stability (in a "middle ground" sensible sense: strong
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>Alex
>
excellent suggestion
-- 
Robin Becker