> He's learned and changed his mind. I don't think so. Call me cynical, but I suspect that Guido went where the money was (one does not simply go out of retire

> He's learned and changed his mind. I don't think so. Call me cynical, but I suspect that Guido went where the money was (one does not simply go out of retirement). Otherwise there would be an apology to the projects he's been consistently berating for years. Good thing Kay Hayen has the perseverance and quite mad planning skills. Today we have a compiler that works better with each release and is capable of delivering results today, while van Rossum's work at Microsoft as of now is largely vaporware I don't have very high hopes for.