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[Python-Dev] PEP czar for PEP 3144?
Terry Reedytjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Feb 21 06:07:07 CET 2012
On 2/20/2012 11:52 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull<stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:>> Steven D'Aprano writes:>>>> > Also, "Czar" is commonly used in US politics as an informal term for the top>> > official responsible for an area.>>>> I think here the most important connotation is that in US parlance a>> "czar" does not report to a committee, and with the exception of a>> case where Sybil is appointed czar, cannot bikeshed. Decisions get>> made (what a concept!)>> I'm curious how old that usage is. I first encountered it around '88> when I interned for a summer at DEC SRC (long since subsumed into HP> Labs); the person in charge of deciding a particular aspect of their> software or organization was called a czar, e.g. the documentation> czar.In US politics, the first I remember was the Drug Czar about that time. It really came into currently during Clinton's admin.-- Terry Jan Reedy
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