Hi, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Arc Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. "build the main mill [cython/pyrex fork] package from scratch, using the > wisdom of the Cython guys (reverse engineering in some cases), even the > people working on Cython agree it needs to be rewritten since the barrier > to entry for new developers is obscenely high". > > One person who is new to Cython made a claim on cython-devel about the > barrier to entry. That is much different than "the people working on > Cython agreeing the barrier to entry for new developers is obscenely high". > There certainly is a barrier to entry -- Cython is a compiler of a highly > nontrivial language after all. But I think describing it as obscenely high > due to the particular implementation is FUD. And it is exactly the kind of > FUD that will hurt the Cython project right now.
This sounds like Arc doesn't know that code is actually harder to read than to write. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
