On 23 Jan., 08:13, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> wrote: > On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Kay Schluehr wrote: > > > Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was initially discussed > > it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting and the > > GIL. > > Is this a variant of Godwin's Law for Python?
Definitely. It's a stable fixed point attractor. No matter how often it was discussed to dead in the past months the likelihood that someone mentions the GIL or ref-counting approaches 1. This is particularly remarkable because it is inverse proportional to the observable activity in this domain so there are really no news. Other similarly strange phenomena: whenever Xah Lee posts one of his infamous rants it attracts at least a dozen of newsgroup readers that try to persuade each other not to respond which will inevitably grow his thread and keep it alive for a long time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
