On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Westley Martínez <aniko...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is really what I love and hate about the internet. It's full of > people who argue for the sake of venting their internal frustrations. > How many discussions comparing declarative and imperative programming > languages have you seen on the web?
Yes, it's both normal and useful on the internet to break off conversation to argue about a minor technicality. But it's completely inappropriate in other contexts, to the point that it can be used for comedy. Two characters, in the middle of a rather heated debate, stop to discuss grammar: "Listen - I've come to pinch her!" "Mercy! Whom?" "You mean who." "Nay! It is the accusative after the verb!" ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
