| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Within Python, I show how metaclasses' quest for completeness yielded excessive complexity (and 80% of their intended uses can now be obtained via class decorators for 20% of the complexity), and how well incremental improvement worked instead in areas such as sorting, generators, and guaranteed-finalization semantics.The talk is not about lowering expectations: our dreams must stay big, bigger
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