Is Python moving too fast? (was Re: Is python commercializationazing? ...)

[Will Ware]

David N. Welton (davidw at linuxcare.com) wrote:

> I think Python is definitely moving too fast.  It should take some
> time to really get to know the user before 'deep binding'...
> These sorts of things wouldn't happen if Python would
> only take the time to get in touch with its true, deeper feelings.

An insightful analysis. But it was either Carl Jung or Carl Yastremszki
(I forget which) who said that we are all either the product of our
social environment, or a rebellion against it. Doggone, maybe it was
Goethe. In the presence of stable figures like Lisp and Fortran, Python
(the middle child when we regard youngsters like Ruby) must carve out
its own identity. Its id-driven will-to-power dictates that it must
distinguish itself by lashing out against the traditional more of, for
example, requiring profound expertise on the part of the user. The
rapid establishment of social ties, even of a fleeting nature, advance
not only that goal but its standing in the uberconscious mesh of communal
psychic, subjective, and algorithmic interbeing. But I fear I'm restating
the obvious.
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