Sherman Pendley wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.: > > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: > > > > I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit) > > but posing an interesting matter of discussion. > > It might be interesting in the abstract, but any such discussion, when > cross-posted to multiple language groups on usenet, will inevitably > devolve into a flamewar as proponents of the various languages argue > about which language better expresses the ideas being talked about. > It's like a law of usenet or something. > > If Xah wanted an interesting discussion, he could have posted this to > one language-neutral group such as comp.programming. He doesn't want > that - he wants the multi-group flamefest.
Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting. This is what I don't understand - everyone seems to assume that by cross posting, one intends on start a "flamefest", when in fact most such "flamefests" are started by those who cannot bring themselves to skipping over the topic that they so dislike. -- wg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
