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Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 09:14:12 EST 2005 
On 12/7/05, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
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>     Adam> Having a large and detailed language specification, although an
>     Adam> admirable ideal, is a waste of time when the target audience is
>     Adam> perhaps a few dozen people.
>
> Just because that audience is small doesn't mean they are unimportant.
> There are currently four actively maintained/developed implementations of
> Python.  A common language reference manual is important for them, and
> indirectly for the people who use the four implementations.

What I meant is that a small audience is not going to draw enough
attention to get the effort it requires.  I agree absolutely that the
material it contains is important.  That's why I feel it should be
merged with the other documents, to ensure that it really does get
maintained.

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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
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