<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cfbolz" class="u-url mention">@<span>cfbolz</span></a></span> There is a moral purity that is only possible if success is eschewed. But someone/something has got to be successful, and then we just have to hope that person/thing can navigate the ensuing compromises reasonably well. I think Python has done OK: I'm pretty sure it would have done much, much worse if a bozo like me had steered it over the same time period!</p>