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On the whole, Guido's career as a BDFL was astoundingly effective. Maybe he made the right call. It'd have been a terrible idea to alienate the science commun
by xapata 6y ago
On the whole, Guido's career as a BDFL was astoundingly effective. Maybe he made the right call. It'd have been a terrible idea to alienate the science community just when data science was taking off as a field.
- neolog 6y agoI don't know how much the original author had to do with Python's success in the last 20 years. The success of Python in data science is because of NumPy/Scipy/Pandas. Things like packaging that needed leadership never got any.
- xapata 6y agoThe leadership was that the science community would benefit from a science-specific tool, like Conda, and that making one ring to rule them all would be too difficult. Also, yes, Guido and many other early contributers have been been active for 30ish years.
- toyg 6y ago> The success of Python in data science is because of NumPy/Scipy/Pandas. And NumPy/Scipy/Pandas exist (and are successful) because...? /s
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- staticassertion 6y agoI'm not disagreeing, but I am curious if you have anything specific you would point to with regards to Guido's role being successful. I'm just ignorant really, it's not intended to be a leading question at all.
- xapata 6y agoToo many things to answer here. The easiest is to point to the popularity of the language. He's made decisions I disagree with, but I can't argue with success.