On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:13 PM, MRAB wrote: > On 20/01/2011 15:11, rantingrick wrote: >> On Jan 20, 6:30 am, Bill Felton<subscripti...@cagttraining.com> >> wrote: >> > [snip] >>> As one of 'the people' who is presumably the focus of rantingrick's >>> concern, let me assure him Tkinter is a non-issue. MIchael is more >>> in touch with my issues than rr. >> >> FYI you are NOT one of the people that is the focus of my concern >> because YOU only see the world from a limited viewpoint. And i never >> proposed to solve every Python programmers problems. You completely >> misunderstand my intentions (along with everyone else!). I do not >> believe in "Utopian dreams". Some people will never be happy with the >> state of Python and that is OK. However, the goal is to keep the >> majority happy AND keep Python "presentable" and "competitive" for the >> next decade. I am sorry you don't fit into any of these categories but >> that is your own fault. Why? Because you are not concerned with the >> community as a whole. You are only concerned with YOURSELF. You are >> displaying both selfishness and ignorance at the same time. We don't >> care what selfish people think and we care even less what the ignorant >> think. If you decide to become a "team player" then you will be a part >> of this community. Lucky for you ignorance and selfishness are >> reversible personality traits. >> > So you're going to lead the "peasants" (your word) whether they like it > or not, and any who don't want to follow are clearly being selfish and > ignorant? > > Have you ever thought that if everyone is misunderstanding your > intentions, then perhaps you're doing something wrong? > > (BTW, welcome to Pythonia, Bill! Most of us are friendly. :-))\
Thanks! And yes, I had noticed that in general this is a congenial, thoughtful, and helpful community. While a lot of what is discussed is not of particular interest to me, there's been a lot that has been of interest and/or of value. So far, I'm pretty impressed with the language as well as the community. And it's wonderful to be involved with a language that has such voluminous supporting materials of all sorts. [I self-taught Smalltalk back in the early and mid-80's when there were 3 books and that's about it...] Hopefully I'll be able to contribute code, learning materials, or such like, at some point ;-) cheers, Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
