The language vs. the environment

[Paul Rubin]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> There has been a huge amount of recent PEP activity related to further
> enhancements to the language.  I think in general that if more of this
> energy was directed at the overall environment (library, support tools,
> installers, documentation, etc) we'd be better off in the long run.

While we're at it, am I the only one bothered by how unsharp the
boundary is between the language and the environment?  I'd consider
things like sys.exc_info to be part of the environment, but there's no
other way to get the info.