What does Python offer?

[Christopher Browne]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when Simon Brunning <SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk> would write:
>> From:	aahz at pythoncraft.com [SMTP:aahz at pythoncraft.com]
>> >This could start to look like a disadvantage if phrased slightly
>> >differently... we're not saying that the whole Python edifice will
>> >crumble if one man disappears, are we? I hope that's not what you
>> >mean.
>> 
>> Nobody knows.  There isn't any official policy about what happens if
>> Guido gets hit by a beer truck.  OTOH, the infrastructure won't just
>> crumble; the problems are all political, and there's no reason to
>> believe (particularly now that PSF exists) that some solution can't be
>> found.
>  
> All the same, I'd still rather that he *wasn't* hit by a beer truck. Guido
> dead, *and* spilt beer - what a catastrophe.

At least you didn't suggest that the catastrophe would _primarily_ be
the spilt beer...
-- 
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/multiplexor.html
Rules of the Evil Overlord #69.  "All midwives will be banned from the
realm.    All   babies   will    be   delivered    at   state-approved
hospitals. Orphans  will be placed  in foster-homes, not  abandoned in
the   woods    to   be   raised    by   creatures   of    the   wild."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>