A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Sun May 7 01:01:44 EDT 2006
Ken Tilton wrote:
> It is vastly more disappointing that an alleged tech genius would sniff
> at the chance to take undeserved credit for PyCells, something probably
> better than a similar project on which Adobe (your superiors at
> software, right?) has bet the ranch. This is the Grail, dude, Brooks's
> long lost Silver Bullet. And you want to pass?????
Looking at the description, Cells looks a lot like one of our internal Python
libraries at Enthought. It's quite useful. Not worldchanging, not a silver
bullet, but useful.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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