Please stop. I'm sorry about messing up this thread. I just wanted to represent why I'm very interested in Victor's efforts.
Regards. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 January 2016 at 04:40, Sven R. Kunze <srku...@mail.de> wrote: > > On 27.01.2016 12:16, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Umm, no, that's not how this works > > That's exactly how it works, Nick. > > > > INADA uses Python as I use crossroads each day. Daily human business. > > > > If you read his post carefully, you can discover that he just presented > to > > you his perspective of the world. Moreover, I can assure you that he's > not > > alone. As usual with humans it's not about facts or mathematically proven > > theorems but perception. It's more about marketing, little important > details > > (or unimportant ones depending on whom you ask) and so on. Stating that > he > > has a wrong perspective will not change anything. > > The only part I disagree with is requesting that *other people* care > about marketing numbers if that's not something they're already > inclined to care about. I'm not in any way disputing that folks make > decisions based on inappropriate metrics, nor that it bothers some > folks that there are dozens of perfectly viable programming languages > people may choose to use instead of Python. > > The fact remains that contributors to open source projects work on > what they want to work on or on what their employers pay them to work > on (for a lucky few, those are the same thing), so telling other > contributors that they're working on the "wrong thing" because their > priorities differ from our priorities is almost always going to be > irritating rather than helpful. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > -- INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com>
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