Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>: > On 08/19/2014 01:43 PM, Ben Hoyt wrote: >> Fair enough. I don't quite understand, though -- why is the "official >> policy" to kill something that's "essential" on *nix? > > ISTM that the policy is based on a fantasy that "it looks like text to > me in my use cases, so therefore it must be text for everyone." What I like about Python is that it allows me to write native linux code without having to make portability compromises that plague, say, Java. I have select.epoll(). I have os.fork(). I have socket.TCP_CORK. The "textualization" of Python3 seems part of a conscious effort to make Python more Java-esque. Marko
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