Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Westley Martínez wrote: >> >>> On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else, >> >> Speak for yourself. >> > > I don't think he meant that the populace here is exclusively > programmers, but that *on this list* we are here because we're > programmers. We may happen to have coincidental interest in (say) > music, but just because some group of us (or even all of us) all enjoy > music does not mean that it'd be on-topic to have a discussion of the > tetrachord of Mercury.
I didn't say it would be on-topic. But we don't cease to be well-rounded human beings with concerns beyond the narrow world of Python programming just because we are writing on a programming forum. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list