Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Roth wrote:
"Rocco Moretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question is, should Guido state "TDD is the one true way to program in Python.", or should concessions be made in the language design for those who don't "drink the TDD Kool-aide".
Neither one. I hope you didn't mean that people who advocate TDD are suicidal fanatics, because that's exactly what "drink the kool-aid" means.
I always thought the connotation was more that those who "drank the Kool-Aid" were unthinking drones, following what others told them to do.
I thought it was an allusion to "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test" by Tom Wolfe - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool_Aid_Acid_Test
First Google hit for "drank the Kool-aid":
http://www.wordspy.com/words/drinktheKool-Aid.asp
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Notes:
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which members of the Peoples Temple cult committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid (although some say the drink of choice was actually Flav-R-Aid).
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