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

[Louis M. Pecora]

In article <G006Jz.At8 at world.std.com>, Will Ware <wware at world.std.com>
wrote:

> 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.

Sigh.  I will never program again.