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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Posted Dec 29, 2012 12:19 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
Parent article: A proposal for "rebooted" Python asynchronous I/O support

Let the bikeshedding begin!
Not a very good start for a healthy discussion. As could be expected there are to date only a handful of messages in the thread.


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Posted Dec 29, 2012 13:28 UTC (Sat) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

"Let the bikeshedding begin!"

You could say the same thing about any PEP. But miraculously a lot of them get accepted.

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Posted Dec 29, 2012 17:48 UTC (Sat) by augustz (subscriber, #37348) [Link]

The comments look constructive and on-point to me.

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Posted Dec 29, 2012 18:38 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Yes, you are right on that respect. Not too much discussion though, especially for such an interesting topic. Python lost momentum in the async server area when it could have led the pack.

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Posted Dec 29, 2012 18:52 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Bear in mind that this PEP comes after a few months of quite intense conversation. Have a look at the python-ideas list starting in October. It's not like the conversation is starting now, in the middle of the holiday lull.

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Posted Dec 29, 2012 19:02 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Probably van Rossum said the quoted sentence as a joke, and my humor detector is on holidays too. It just sounded a bit harsh coming from a "benevolent dictator" to me.

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Posted Jan 3, 2013 22:18 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

<p>You forget that this particular BDFL named his programming language after <a href="">a comedy group</a></p>

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Posted Jan 3, 2013 22:23 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

And of course this was meant to read like this:

You forget that this particular BDFL named his programming language after a comedy group

(Can we get a post editor, please? ;) )

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Posted Jan 4, 2013 11:53 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I would have very much appreciated an explicit Python mention, e.g.:
Let the discussion about the color of Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson's second shed begin!
But bikeshedding? Heresy!

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