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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The story of makefiles is a warning of the dark side to "release early,
> release often", and the dangers of using alpha software in production:
>
> [quote]
> Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't tried
> either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After getting
> myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did something simple
> with the pattern newline-tab. It worked, it stayed. And then a few weeks
> later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and
> I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history.
> -- Stuart Feldman
> [end quote]

Perhaps. Or perhaps it's a warning about the importance of version 0
of a piece of software: you "release early, release often", but you
start with version 0.1, where the standard backward compat guarantees
don't hold. You get some feedback, and then when you finally release
version 1.0, you start promising not to mess people's stuff up; but
before that, anything might change.

ChrisA

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Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-07 11:00 +1000
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-07 02:28 +0000
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-07 12:50 +1000
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-07-07 05:35 +0000
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-08 11:22 +1000
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-08 00:03 -0700
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-08 08:48 +0000
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 19:05 +1000
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 12:09 +0300
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 20:28 +1000
            Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-07-08 14:13 +0300
              Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-08 21:37 +1000
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-09 12:41 +1000
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-09 01:19 -0700

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