How The Mighty Have Fallen, Python Edition

[Thomas Passin]

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

[Edward K. Ream]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

Thanks for this post. I enjoyed reading about Tim's accomplishments.

Today's identity-oriented politics are a mystery to me, but happily, a six-month ban is less severe than extra-judicial murder.

Edward

[jkn]

I read about this in the irreverent UK-based (originally, at least) online IT magazine The Register.

I was a bit flabbergasted/outraged, at least initially. TimOne is probably the Python 'guru' I

have followed most closely, in the 25 years or so since I started writing Python.

Tim actually posts in the comment section. His comment is worth a read;

it is his usual measured and calm self and gives at least a measure of perspective lacking

elsewhere.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/core_python_developer_suspended_coc/

    J^n

On Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 4:45:02 PM UTC+1 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

[Thomas Passin]

The "Mighty" in my title of this conversion didn't refer to Tim, but to the old Python way, which seems to becoming taken over by the  steering committee/bureaucracy. Maybe this has something to do with my frustration with Python getting more and more complicated very quickly.

[jkn]

Yes, I realise this, and ... share some of the sentiment. I was intending to add a little background

regarding Tim Peters in particular.