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Re: [Python-Dev] Interesting blog post by Ben Sussman-Collins Nick Coghlan Mon Jul 14 20:15:22 2008 

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder:  comments
on python-checkins are *not* personal.  The goal is to make the
code better and/or gain better understanding.  We all make
mistakes, better to correct them early before they become big
problems..
And this reminder applies to reviewer *and* reviewees! (I know I've made this mistake in both roles. :-) 

I still love the last entry from Raymond's school of hard knocks [1]:

"""do everything right (formatting,
   procedure, profiling, testing, etc) and watch the Timbot
   come along five minutes later and improve your code
   making it faster, clearer, more conformant, more elegant,
   and also gel neatly with the vaguaries of memory allocation,
   cache performance, and compilers you've never heard of."""

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028725.html


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