Nick Coghlan writes: > Turning my Windows gaming machine back to the default settings and > trying to bootstrap pip was one of the key things that got me > motivated to work on PEP 453. It still astounds me that one company > can both create Visual Studio, *and* make it difficult to configure a > machine to be suitable for software development, but I guess that's > enterprise companies for you :)
Those of us who study management for a living are definitely not surprised. I recommend Robert Townsend's "Call Yourself Up" from _Up the Organization_: he advises CEOs to ring up the company's toll-free number and find out what the customers deal with. Urk! This is the "same s---, different dept", that's all. And it's a lot harder to avoid than most folks think. Kudos to Nick for "calling himself up", to python-dev for creating a language and development ecology with so few unnecessary barriers, and to Guido for setting the tone! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
