On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 2:37:59 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote: > 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?
Among other things I mean... 1. 'Dysfunctional' can mean one of a. Intrinsically terrible idea b. Teething troubles c. Some linear combination of the above d. More likely non-linear 2. In our field, success correlates poorly with technical excellence. For examples you may consider a. A certain large Redmond company b. JS vs python on (???) metric [This must be somebody-or-others' law -- dunno who. Sturgeon's law is the closest I can get] 3. The rheostat can slide on many points between fear-driven and passion/innovation-driven design. > > OK, let's make an appearance on Myspace then... Heh! [Also see 3 above] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
