<story><title>Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted&apos;s Deferreds</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tulip/ut4vTG-08k8/discussion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>parennoob</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand any of the ideas alluded to therein, but the tone of the discourse in there and the thread that led to this (&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/python-tulip/EgpBV5-sIQ4/hcTQwMmKFOUJ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!msg&amp;#x2F;python-tulip&amp;#x2F;EgpBV5-sI...&lt;/a&gt;) is very respectful, and people apologize if their tone was too snarky or contemptuous.&lt;p&gt;I like this a lot about python, and it makes me excited and eager to perhaps contribute a little to its development some day (I&amp;#x27;m currently at the level where I have a decent idea about the OOP aspects of python, and know some tricks that I think are nifty, such as overloading __setattr__ and the like. So quite a long way to go, but hopefully I will get there some day).</text></comment>
<story><title>Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted&apos;s Deferreds</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tulip/ut4vTG-08k8/discussion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aidos</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve only looked at Twisted briefly before but I feel like I learnt a lot from this run-through.&lt;p&gt;Guido writes so well; he is able to thoughtfully deconstruct ideas with a critical eye while still praising the bits he likes. I think we could all learn something from the way he has approached this. It&amp;#x27;s definitely a model I will aspire to follow while appraising unfamiliar code.</text></comment>