On 11/16/2013 8:39 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Trent, I watched your video and read your slides. I only read the slides. > (Does the word "motormouth" mean anything to you? :-) The extra background (and repetition) was helpful to me in filling in things, especially about Windows, that I could not follow in the discussion a year ago. But I noticed that it might be tedious to people already familiar with the subject. > Clearly your work isn't ready for python-dev -- it is just too > speculative. I've moved python-dev to BCC and added python-ideas. > > It possibly doesn't even belong on python-ideas -- if you are serious > about wanting to change Linux or other *NIX variants, you'll have to go > find a venue where people who do forward-looking kernel work hang out. A working and useful Windows-only PyParallel (integrated with CPython or not) might help stimulate open-source *nix improvements to match the new Windows stuff. > Finally, I'm not sure why you are so confrontational about the way > Twisted and Tulip do things. We are doing things the only way they *can* > be done without overhauling the entire CPython implementation (which you > have proven will take several major release cycles, probably until 4.0). > It's fine that you are looking further forward than most of us. I don't > think it makes sense that you are blaming the rest of us for writing > libraries that can be used today. Just reading the slides, I did not pick up as much confrontation and blame as you did. I certainly appreciate that asyncio is working *now*, and on all three major target systems. I look forward to looking at the doc when it is added. I will understand a bit better for having read Trent's slides. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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