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| schestowitz | >> If it helps, it doesn't surprise me. Look where he worked in recent years. | Nov 13 04:31 |
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| schestowitz | > | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > It doesn't surprise me either. Though it would help if while you're | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > attacking Python (which is called for IMO) you were making the point a | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > bit more often that PyPy is not like this. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > When people think of Python they think of the language, not the | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > implementation or the foundation. The latter is the problem, the former | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > is the victim. Ideally we would preserve the language (as many former | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > target of colonialism do) and condemn the takeover and parties involved. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > Obviously I don't expect you to espouse any views you do not yourself | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > hold-- rather I think you are a bit sympathetic, while your rhetoric is | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > more one-sided about it than you are. It doesn't bother me that it's | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > passionate and waves a finger-- I think it ought to. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > PyPy (which you rarely mention) deserves a bit better. It's not as if it | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > needs equal time, but projects to preserve what was attacked/taken | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > over/abandoned such as Mate, Trinity, PyPy never get much love from the | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > community-- but they work so hard to preserve culture and offer choices. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > When rms started doing this it was to preserve a culture. But that's in | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > very broad terms-- when other people work to preserve subcultures, | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > everybody acts like they are just pushing obsolete tools. Free Software | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | > becomes more like Open Source all the time. Not a compliment. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | I am not familiar enough with PyPy. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | That is why I rarely mention it. | Nov 13 04:31 |
| schestowitz | By all means prepare an article about this if you can. You know more than me about Python. | Nov 13 04:33 |
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