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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by peteradio on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:39PM (#25074651)
Guido is not a senior engineer.. he's a "special projects" person. Fewer than 50 such persons would exist in the microsoft stable. Why would you have someone who functions at such a high level bother with low level implementation? There's thousands of shit munching nerds who can implement flawlessly but who need the overarching guidance to deliver product.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by anfeldman on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:21PM (#25075219)
Because most really good designers also did low level implementation? Thompson, Ritchie, Leroy, Torvalds. Heck, while I don't know for sure, probably Dave Cutler did, too.

I don't know any product that's pleasant to use that was developed in the way you describe. Python certainly wasn't.