[Python-Dev] User's complaints (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 11 00:24:29 CEST 2006

Not to mention the cost to documentation and books everywhere -- updating our own docs is only the tip of the iceberg. And then updating the users' brains is an even bigger job... (Though at least it is highly parallellizable. :-)

--Guido

On 7/10/06, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:13:53PM +0200, Armin Rigo wrote: > didn't draw much applause. It certainly gave me the impression that > many changes in Python are advocated and welcomed by only a small > fraction of users.

The benefits of changes are usually clear, but I don't think the costs of changes are fully assessed. python-dev considers the cost of changes to CPython's implementation, but I don't think the cost changes to Jython, IronPython, or PyPy are taken into account here. PyPy probably has enough representatives here who would squawk if something was difficult, but I don't think Jython or IronPython do. I think if we assessed those costs fully, the bar for changes to the language would be a good deal higher. --amk

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