LangWart: Method congestion from mutate multiplicty

[MRAB]

On 2013-02-11 00:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Rick Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:29:54 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> Rick wrote:
>>> And you have missed my point, which is that reversed(), and sorted(),
>>> were not added to the language on a whim, but because they were
>>> requested, over and over and over again.
>>
>> Well, well, this explains everything!
>>
>> We don't add features because of logic, or because of consistency, or even
>> because of good sense, we simply add them to appease the masses.
>
I remember a time when he was saying that the developers of the
language were ignoring the silent majority. Now he's saying that we
shouldn't simply add things to appease the masses.

> They were requested because people kept re-inventing them. They kept
> re-inventing them because they are useful functions that make good sense to
> have.
>
Exactly.

Practicality beats purity, and all that.