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hard. It builds character.</p>
<p class='source'>Jim Ahlstrom, at one of the early Python
workshops</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q29'>&gt;VERY cool mod, Peter. I'll be
curious to see GvR's reaction to your syntax. Hm.</p>
<p class='source'>Nick Seidenman and Guido van Rossum, 1 Aug
1996</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q30'>Python is an experiment in how much
freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read
another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.</p>
<p class='source'>Guido van Rossum, 13 Aug 1996</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q31'>[On regression testing] Another
approach is to renounce all worldly goods and retreat to a
primitive cabin in Montana, where you can live a life of purity,
unpolluted by technological change. But now and then you can send
out little packages....</p>
<p class='source'>Aaron Watters</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q32'>Ah, you're a recent victim of
forceful evangelization. Write your own assert module, use it, and
come back in a few months to tell me whether it really caught 90%
of your bugs.</p>
<p class='source'>Guido van Rossum, 7 Feb 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q33'>The larger scientific computing
centers generally have a "theory" division and a "actually uses the
computer" &lt;wink&gt; division. The theory division generally
boasts some excellent theoreticians and designers, while the other
division generally boasts some excellent physical scientists who
simply want to get their work done. In most labs I've seen, the two
divisions hate each others' guts (or, rarely, blissfully ignore
each other), &amp; the politics is so thick you float on it even
after they embed your feet in cement blocks (hence even the simple
relief of death is denied you &lt;wink&gt;).</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 25 Mar 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q34'>In one particular way the conflict is
fundamental &amp; eternal: the "working scientists" generally
understand the hardware du jour perfectly, and passionately resent
any attempt to prevent them from fiddling with it directly -- while
the theory folks are forever inventing new ways to hide the
hardware du jour. That two groups can both be so right and so wrong
at the same time is my seventh proof for the existence of God
...</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 25 Mar 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q35'>You're going to be in a minority -
you're coming to Python programming from a language which offers
you a lot more in the way of comfortable operations than Python,
instead of coming from medieval torture chambers like C or Fortran,
which offer so much less.</p>
<p class='source'>Andrew Mullhaupt, 26 Jun 1997</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q36'>...although Python uses an obsolete
approach to memory management, it is a <em>good</em> implementation
of that approach, as opposed to S, which uses a combination of bad
implementation and demented design decisions to arrive at what may
very well be the worst memory behavior of any actually useful
program.</p>
<p class='source'>Andrew Mullhaupt, 26 Jun 1997</p>
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