On Monday 11 April 2005 07:01, Martijn Faassen wrote: > > This is where I think Europython has done better than Pycon. We have had > > keynote speakers (apart from Guido), who have talked about things that > > transcend Python, and I think this has affected the whole spirit of > > Europython. > > As a datapoint: > > At the first PyCon, there was a talk by Paul Graham. Interesting, but > not about Python at all. Basically about how languages like Lisp are the > future and some tiny nods to Python about being enough like Lisp to be > part of the "good languages". It was fun, it transcended python I guess, > but a *bit* more about Python would've been good. :):)
I think you were very polite here. Paul Graham's key note sucked and we were all looking at each other thinking "What the f*ck?". Really, he talked about how Python needs this new graph datatype to be as cool as Lisp, for example. I do not think a talk like that shouls be ever a key note at a Python conference. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
