Stephen Hansen wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:38 AM, r <rt8...@gmail.com <mailto:rt8...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    On Jan 30, 2:26 am, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net
    <mailto:sjmac...@lexicon.net>> wrote:
    [snip]
     > This doesn't appear to match the description. Perhaps the PSU has
     > subverted my comp)(*&^...@!
     > NO CARRIER

    Oops -- Good catch John,
    Even perfect people like myself make mistakes :). Here is the
    aforementioned thread where a Python user was chastised for daring to
    say Python has a clearer syntax than Perl thereby easing
    maintainability: OH NO! *big hand wave*
    
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b1214df115ac01ce/c7cfe1fa9634cc2a?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=perl+bashing#c7cfe1fa9634cc2a
    
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b1214df115ac01ce/c7cfe1fa9634cc2a?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=perl+bashing#c7cfe1fa9634cc2a>

    These Perl mongers have no business doing their mongling here, go to
    c.l.Perl!


He was not chastised, nor threatened as you previously said; he was welcomed to Python in all of its awesomeness, and given a pointer about community etiquette.

[snip]
I have tons of positive things to say about Python: lots of people in The Community do. And we've all worked with other languages and have reasons why we don't like those tools, and people are fine to share those reasons. But that's a different thing then flinging bile and ranting about how horrible Language-X is or how Perfect-For-All-Things Python is.

[snip]
It's probably unpythonic to bash other languages. Python is so good that there's no need. :-)
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