On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9 Des, 05:52, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> From my perspective, it was less the original complaint and more the
>> sudden jump to "CPython is dead! The GIL sucks! Academic eggheads!"
>> that prompted the comparisons to trolling.
>
> To be fair to the complainant, before mentioning the GIL, he did
> initially get the usual trite fragments of the Zen of Python right
> back at him ("simple is better than complex", "special cases aren't
> special enough to break the rules"), albeit not the whole thing in its
> overused, unabridged form. I think I'd go on a rant if presented with
> that rather than the accepted reason for the noted shortcomings of the
> language: CPython's parsing technology isn't "sufficiently powerful
> parser technology" as GvR himself says [1].
>
> Paul
>So hold up a second. I'm out of line for calling someone on making a trollish post that's not relevant to the topic, and for being pretty late to the party even with the part that *was* on topic, and for (even in the original post) going the ad-hominem route by not so subtly implying that Python is an ivory tower language that's not good enough for people with real problems - a clearly false statement by any standards, and doubly offensive from someone who *is* using it for real problems and who himself is a less than shining example of responsible software management, but the OPs lapse into ranting in response to trite but accurate answers to a question he could have answered for himself, in detail, had he bothered to read the threads from the time when the issue actually matter is a reasonable response that we should support and validate? Sometimes you're not a crusader for thinking differently and change by confrontation and speaking truth to power. Sometimes you're just an asshole. For clarification: The OPs original complaint is legitimate, if dated and partially his own fault. His phrasing of the problem, the tone and content of his email, and his lapse into flaming when he wasn't immediately hailed as a herald of sanity is not legitimate. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
