On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 10/11/10 11:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:robert.k...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger >>> <use...@geekmail.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro >>> <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >>> >>> > In message >>> <mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org >>> <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org> >>> <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org >>> <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org>>>, >>> >>> > Emile van Sebille wrote: >>> > >>> > > Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's >>> attribute? >>> > >>> > I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women... >>> >>> You may want to think about whether this really was your >>> intended >>> meaning. >>> >>> >>> Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy; >>> explains why >>> programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least). >>> Made >>> perfect >>> sense to me. >>> >>> >>> That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than >>> women". >>> >>> >>> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax? >> > > Correction: <sarcasm> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax? > </sarcasm> > >> >> It's *all* we argue about. That, and tabs vs. spaces. > > But tabs ARE spaces (specifically 3 of them), in a row ;)
<shudder> Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
