On Dec 5, 4:00 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I really like Python, but I seem to get blasted enough on this list that I don't post much on here any more without being extremely careful in how I word my answers. Bleh! Oh well. You win some, you lose some. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
