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Guido and Bruce Eckel Discuss Python 3000
Phoe6 writes "Leading author and programmer, Bruce Eckel, posted some of his concerns on Python 3000 stating that the Python community is failing to address some of the important issues with this major, backward incompatible release. Problems he mentions are concurrency support on multi-core CPUs, easy deployment support, and a standardized user interface, amongst others. He expresses his dissatisfaction at the post titled "Python 3K or Python 2.9?. Guido van Rossum addresses the concerns in a very pragmatic way with his response to Bruce Eckel and calls for more developers to contribute to Python to improve it further. Bruce Eckel concludes with his thoughts that he wants his favorite language to be better with his reply to Guido's reply."
Shouldn't Python 3000 include a giant animated foot and silhouettes of the audience cracking jokes?
Why not just call it Python++? Oh, that's right, Python doesn't do that.
You gotta find first gear in your giant robot car
The python mathematics algorithms must have a bug if they're going from version 2.9 to version 3000.
Of course, since Python was named after Monty Python's Flying Circus, maybe it should be one of these:
Something along those lines anyway
The Digital Sorceress
Bruce complained that Python3K is not modular enough. Guido, always the pragmatist, and having just watched Reservoir Dogs, retorted that anyone who wants a modular language should get his head examined.
Some guy on the mailing list proposed a new and better syntax, but Guido declined to merge it; he explained that he doesn't trust the new guy as much as Bob, whose Context-Free Syntax (CFS) is going into the next development version (odd-numbered, of course).
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
That's not right; you need to name the language after a comedy troupe or show. Then famous bits from that can be used to name features or releases.
So, Bruce's Python derived language could be called SNL (Selfless Notation Language). Libraries could have names like "Bassomatic" (XML processing) or "Cowbell" (Multimedia types).
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Meanwhile, those of us who use Python in our work will continue to be productive and prosperous, while I guess you can go back to writing your unbelievably boring "blog". What a loser.
I see someone's never heard of Lisp.
I'm even more perplexed why Guido is removing the "+" sign. HE says he's reserving it for an unnamed future use. In the mean time using two minus signs in a row is how all additions will be done in python 3000. I'm baffled by this.
Ah, you mean the Norwegian Blue? I don't know. Looks dead to me. Of course, 'e might just be resting. Beautiful plumage, though.
Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.
This has been a public service announcement from the Society for the Preservation of Curly Braces.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
You do know about Python's block delimiter support, right? You can use the block delimiters from any language you like, just prefix them with '#' and Python will handle them automatically.
Sounds like some tough issues. Good thing they have 993 years to get it right.
Pedantry: By definition, you decimate your army by killing 10%. If you select 1% of your army and decimate that, then you only kill 0.1%. And it's really not like decimation at all--if someone doesn't fit into the project, their departing the project just improves cohesion. Decimation was intended to terrorize the troops.
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