[Python-Dev] PEP 3144: IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python Standard Library (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 11🔞10 CEST 2009

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Martin> I think it's too early to tell. It may be that they have not yet Martin> achieved their purpose - just let's wait fifty more years (and Martin> I'm only half-joking).

So what you're really saying is we only have to wait 25 years...

:)

Martin has a really good point though - software development is still pretty immature as a discipline, being around for mere decades as opposed to the centuries (or more) that other activities like mathematics, physics or construction have behind them.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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