[Python-Dev] Interesting blog post by Ben Sussman-Collins (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 11:06:00 CEST 2008
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder: comments on python-checkins are not personal. The goal is to make the code better and/or gain better understanding. We all make mistakes, better to correct them early before they become big problems.. And this reminder applies to reviewer and reviewees! (I know I've made this mistake in both roles. :-)
I still love the last entry from Raymond's school of hard knocks [1]:
"""do everything right (formatting, procedure, profiling, testing, etc) and watch the Timbot come along five minutes later and improve your code making it faster, clearer, more conformant, more elegant, and also gel neatly with the vaguaries of memory allocation, cache performance, and compilers you've never heard of."""
Cheers, Nick.
[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028725.html
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