Python's user class implementation, and GIT

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Comment to Guido's post "The History of Python: Adding Support for User-defined Classes"

I like dictionaries/namespaces better than objects. For me, your accomplishment with Python's implementation of user classes is on a par with Linus's insight to base a DVCS on a "mere" filesystem that only tracks content based on cryptographic hashes. A single idea, very simple but not _too_ simple, implies everything else, to great success.

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Computer science is too important to leave in the hands of people who are not implementors.