PEP Parade

[Joshua Macy]

Roy Smith wrote

> Not touching the core language is a Good Thing.    It's really tough to 
> convince people that python is a viable tool when it's a moving target.  
> 
> It's been somewhat of an uphill battle to get my development group to 
> accept the fact that I write tools for the whole group's use in python.  
> Having the core language change from version to version just makes it 
> worse, as we discover imcompatabilities between whatever version I'm using 
> to develop on and whateve they're running on their boxes.  Telling people, 
> "Oh, you need to upgrade to version X" gets old pretty fast.  As the saying 
> goes, "if you're explaining, you've already lost."
> 


   Just out of curiosity, what does the rest of your group develop in 
then?  FORTRAN?  COBOL? ("and none of this ANSI85 crap, either...it gets 
old trying to hit a moving target!")

   Joshua