Guido at Google

[bonono at gmail.com]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> <bonono at gmail.com> wrote:
>    ...
> > > > > I wonder if this has got to do something with Microsoft developing
> > > > > IronPython. Incidentellay it is reaching a 1.0 release pretty soon.
> > > > > Perhaps Google has some cards up their sleeve. What other best way to
> > > > > counter this than to hire the big fish himself ? :-)
>    ...
> > > > I wonder how high a particular programming language is in the prioirty
> > > > of either organisations of such size ?
>    ...
> > > Interesting question.  I would expect, without any inside knowledge,
>    ...
> > > "single-programming-language" cultures [net of the very early times when
> > > Basic was MS's only product, of course;-)]...).
> > >
> > The question was specifically to the previous question it is responsed
> > to and if its context or meaning have been read otherwise(intended or
> > not intended), there isn't much I can do.
>
> The funny idea that Google would hire Guido to "counter" Microsoft's
> hiring of Jim Hugunin 1+ year ago didn't particularly need debunking,
> but you chose to comment on it with a "question" which I thought was
> worth answering, since you chose to phrase it so very generally, and
> since it appeared to be intended as a "rhetorical question" hinting at
> what I consider a wrong idea in the general case.  Far from "there not
> being much you can do", if you're interested in avoiding possible
> misunderstandings you can easily choose to express yourself more
> precisely and specifically, rather than vaguely and generically...
>
As I said, I cannot do anything in how you want to intepret that and
how you can read it as "rhetorical question"(could be just that it is
from me), there really is nothing I can do other changing the mail name
which I am intended to.

What is your meaning of "wrong idea in the general case" ?