On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > But i think that when the time arrives, the "someone", or > "some entity" will inevitably decide that, whilst Python2.x > was the best high level language available to date, it has > many flaws that cannot be worked around "cleanly", so > instead of continuing on with Python "as-is", we should take > all the good ideas of Python, plus all the good ideas of > Ruby, plus few good ideas in Perl, Javascript, etc... and > create a *whole* new language that will supersede them all. > > BECAUSE REMEMBER, EVOLUTION IS A GOOD THING!
Let 'em. If you believe evolution is such a good thing, you're most welcome to arrange it. Personally, I believe that *guided development* is a good thing, and whaddayaknow, that's exactly what we have here from GvR and from the python-dev team. Proper development of a large or small project requires an intelligent person with a hand on the tiller, not randomly undirected additions (or, perhaps not "undirected" so much as "directed by every single whining mailing list post" - which is the same thing, really); someone needs to decide which ideas are good and which are bad. Undirected evolution is destructive. Directed cultivation is constructive. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list