- E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

[Michael Schneider]

Congratulations to Guide,

Mike

Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> Guido at Google: a message in THE public forum c.l.p.
> 
> A confirmation by Martellibot, that Guido is IN FACT sitting 15m
> distant from him; and everybody in Python knows where Martellibot has
> his desk.
> 
> Can it get more official than this?
> 
> yeah:
> a confirmation by Greg Stein @ Google within slashdot, that Guido is
> working at Google.
> 
> I am sure that more people in the Python community are reading c.l.p.
> and /. than the washington post, the people affected have been
> informed.
> 
> I guess that's as formal and official as it can get.
> 
> And concerning Guido, Python, community and leadership:
> 
> Guido is the designer, the creator of Python. He has nearly unlimeted
> trust in his design decisions: we all know, that he is THE gifted
> language designer. His proclamations are accepted because he has proven
> over time that he knows what's best for the language.
> 
> Allow me to quote Greg Stein:
> "Ha! Guido would quit in a heartbeat if you tried to make him manage
> people. That just isn't where he's at. He's absolutely brilliant and
> loves to write excellent code. Great. We're gonna let him do just that
> :-)"
> 
> So, Google with their geek-version of the Playboy-Mansion, free massage
> parleurs, free lunch and dinner and best recruitment tactics on the
> planet and the known universe will not be able to make Guido manage
> people.
> 
> Somehow the Python community managed itself through the years... Python
> grew healthy and steadily; forked less then usual, inspired other
> languages and got faster and faster and faster.
> 
> Maybe only mediocre and less ideas need a great leader. Maybe a great
> idea can lead for itself?
> 
> Harald
> 
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