The First Law Of comp.lang.python Dynamics

[Kay Schluehr]

On 23 Jan., 08:13, Philip Semanchuk <phi... at semanchuk.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Kay Schluehr wrote:
>
> > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was initially discussed
> > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the
> > GIL.
>
> Is this a variant of Godwin's Law for Python?

Definitely. It's a stable fixed point attractor. No matter how often
it was discussed to dead in the past months the likelihood that
someone mentions the GIL or ref-counting approaches 1. This is
particularly remarkable because it is inverse proportional to the
observable activity in this domain so there are really no news.

Other similarly strange phenomena: whenever Xah Lee posts one of his
infamous rants it attracts at least a dozen of newsgroup readers that
try to persuade each other not to respond which will inevitably grow
his thread and keep it alive for a long time.