Simon Brunning wrote: > 2009/8/11 Robert Dailey: >> On Aug 11, 3:40 pm, Bearophile wrote: >>> There are gals too here. >> It's a figure of speech. And besides, why would I want programming >> advice from a woman? lol. Thanks for the help. > > Give the attitudes still prevalent in our industry (cf > <http://tinyurl.com/c5nqju> and many more), I'm sorry to say that I > don't think this is funny.
Me neither. I used to reply with comments like "you just missed more than half of the world's population" to people who started their postings with "hi guys!", and I stopped doing that as a) it became too tiring, especially on a potentially-for-newbees group like c.l.py, and b) to many people it actually *is* a figure of speech. But reading statements like the above really makes me feel that it's best to comment even on simple things like "hi guys!". Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
