Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
Is it me, or has c.l.p. developed a slightly harsher tone recently? (Haven't been following for a while.)
Yep. I can only post here for about a week or two until someone blows a cylinder and gets ugly because they interpreted something I said as a criticism of the language and took it personally by extension. Then I have to take a 4 month break because I'm VERY prone to reciprocating--nastily. I think its a symptom of the language's maturing, getting popular, and a minority fraction* of the language's most devout advocates developing an egotism that complements their python worship in a most unsavory way.
I wish they would instead spend their energy volunteering to moderate this list and culling out some of the spam.
*No names were mentioned in the making of this post. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
