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zahlmanlast Tuesday at 3:18 PM1 replyview on HN

It's always rather irritating to me that people make these complaints without trying to understand any of the under-the-hood stuff, because the ultimate conclusion is that it's somehow a bad thing that, on a FOSS project, multiple people tried to solve a problem concurrently.


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NetMageSCWlast Tuesday at 6:10 PM

That’s especially ironic given that inside Python part of the philosophy is “There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.” So why does Python’s external environment seem more like something that escape from a Perl zoo?

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