Semasiology of Open Source
Bloody brilliant. Robert Lefkowitz, fresh from OSCON:
[link|http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail169.html|http://www.itconvers...ws/detail169.html]
"Despite the seemingly endless necessity for doing
so, it's actually not possible to reverse-engineer intended invariants
from staring at thousands of lines of code (not in C, and not in
Python code either)."
Tim Peters on python-dev