Has Mark Hammond attained pariah status yet?

[Samuele Pedroni]

From: Cameron Laird <claird at starbase.neosoft.com>
> In article <3c8e0911_1 at news.bluewin.ch>,
> Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> >
> >Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> >mailman.1015926440.9915.python-list at python.org...
> >> So asks an article on Mark in the IT section of today's Sydney Morning
> >> Herald - see
> >> http://www.it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/03/12/FFXMFP3LOYC.html
> >>
> >
> >It's probably just the journalist's fault but I find the article
frivolous
> >and vague.
> >
> >What he is concretely working about? What he contretely want to work
about?
> >etc... There are many possible integration philosophies and technologies?
> >and both aspects tech/philosophy are far from irrelevant.
> >(The frozen Python.NET as a full fledged Python or limited
> >and altered, a new attempt in that direction, bridging ...)
> >
> >Is he working in stealth-mode or it is just MS-kind PR <wink>?
> >
> >What kind of Python technologies will the book treat?
> >
> >Just some academic questions. regards.
> >
> >
>
> My background is academic.  I spend a lot of time nowadays
> journalistically.  I can assure you that this article is
> *not* frivolous or vague--at least not in comparison with
> most of what appears in the popular and trade presses.
>

What's your point, exactly?

My point was direct, maybe rude, and
there were too few <wink>s,
but basically I find that the article per se
does not do any good. I don't know
Mark personally and have nothing against
him.

I find its incipit quite frivolous, at least for the form.
YMMV.
Now it is *not* frivilous in the sense that it has
started, can start a "debate". But maybe
not the right way ...

And what datapoints we acquire through
the article?

That .NET is like Java and contour and not
simply Passport and Web Services.
I knew that.

That De Icaza is a misunderstood
guy: probably.

regards.

PS: - My background is academic too.
- Personally, I have nothing against Python and .NET integration,
but not all the possible technical solutions do the same
amount of good to all the "parties" involved.