[Cython] Arc Riley, PyMill, and FUD

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 3. "build the main mill [cython/pyrex fork] package from scratch, using the
> wisdom of the Cython guys (reverse engineering in some cases), even the
> people working on Cython agree it needs to be rewritten since the barrier
> to entry for new developers is obscenely high".
> 
> One person who is new to Cython made a claim on cython-devel about the
> barrier to entry.  That is much different  than "the people working on
> Cython agreeing the barrier to entry for new developers is obscenely high".
> There certainly is a barrier to entry -- Cython is a compiler of a highly
> nontrivial language after all.  But I think describing it as obscenely high
> due to the particular implementation is FUD. And it is exactly the kind of
> FUD that will hurt the Cython project right now.

This sounds like Arc doesn't know that code is actually harder to read than to
write.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Stefan