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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Python 2 end-of-life?
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:12:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ3Ls_Hn5w7e2C+SvUyYCswKP4sKXPL23LRdw13W+u4U_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191129134239.GA77005@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain>

Hi Bengt,

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 14:42, Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> wrote:

> > And what do we win? More reproducibility? More bootstrappability?
>
> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes
>
> The first quote in particular ;-)

I agree with the quote. :-)
But it does not answer to the question. Because your proposal appears
to me more complicated than simple. ;-)

Well, my answer would be: python -c 'import this' ;-)
[...]
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
--


All the best,
simon

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-29 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-31 15:39 Python 2 end-of-life? zimoun
2019-11-21 11:46 ` zimoun
2019-11-21 12:01   ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-26 16:51     ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-26 17:50       ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-26 18:55         ` ng0
2019-11-27  8:28         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-27 17:41           ` zimoun
2019-11-26 21:51       ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-27  7:56         ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-27 17:35           ` zimoun
2019-11-29  6:07             ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-29  7:38               ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-29 12:12                 ` zimoun
2019-11-29 11:41               ` zimoun
2019-11-29 13:42                 ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-29 14:12                   ` zimoun [this message]
2019-11-29 22:16                     ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-27 17:28         ` zimoun
2019-11-27 17:43           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-11-29  6:54           ` Bengt Richter
2019-11-29 11:55             ` zimoun
2019-11-28 14:40       ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-28 15:50         ` Hartmut Goebel
2019-11-28 18:22           ` zimoun
2019-11-21 17:28   ` Alex Griffin

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