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please don't use Python-3

please don't use Python-3

Posted Dec 6, 2008 13:45 UTC (Sat) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: please don't use Python-3 by njs
Parent article: Python 3.0 released

Nicely put, NJS.

By the way, I suspect that the reason Python's human-factors are so good is because its immediate, strong ancestor ABC was subjected to iterated user testing. Imagine! A tool intended for use by users actually being *tested* on users and then changed in response to what is observed.

If I were the emperor of the programming languages research universe, I would summarily reject all papers that didn't come with studies on real humans, which would be all of them.


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