Do you like the current design of python.org?

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Tue Dec 9 04:07:32 EST 2014


Rustom Mody wrote:

> On Friday, December 5, 2014 4:13:27 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> But most of all, I despise the menus that pop up covering what I am
>> trying to read the page just because I happened to move the mouse over a
>> button. I loathe the practice of stuffing content into menus instead of
>> using links to individual web pages. And I hold nothing but scorn for the
>> fact that the main page has a slideshow.
> 
> I thought I'd argue against this (and the general tenor of these
> complaints) Tried to click on the > in what looked like a console session
> 
> and for the last 5 minutes I am staring at
> Loading console ...
> 
> with the L in a different color...
> 
> Pretty... but not exactly what I expect in an interactive console.
> 
> Lest it seem like I am agreeing with these complaints, I'd like to say:
> Either python goes this way or the way of Fortran and Cobol.

You mean if Cobol had a shiny but disfunctional website we'd be using that 
instead of Python? That python.org is fear-driven design? 

OK, let's make an appearance on Myspace then...




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