Project dream

[Andrew Dalke]

Christian Tismer:
> >  Most of the
> > time it was just some sugar spread around to make people excited,
> > creating lengthy threads with no result.  How serious are you about
> > spending a reasonable amount for a really innovative application in
> > Python.

Paul Rubin:
> I don't see any bad consequences of posting interesting ideas for
projects,
> even if nobody takes them up.

Suppose it takes 15 minutes for Christian to write up an idea.
Suppose it then starts a thread, and he spends another 45 minutes
on that thread to get his point across.  And suppose it goes nowhere.
(As he says, that's the usual case.  It's easy to talk, hard to do.)
Then that's an hour which could have been spent on more productive
efforts.

Oh, the first couple dozen times it's fun to shoot the breeze like
that, but after a while that sugar turns into saccarine.

Are you going to the Python conference?  That's a great way to
talk with a lot of people and get ideas for projects.  (And they
too have their own way to convert sugar into artificial sweetners.)

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com