On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Peter <peter.milli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Real mature lot of responses here guys - shows how much you have grown up. > > Reading this thread looked more like observing a bunch of 3rd grader - > somebody offers an opinion and all you can do is ridicule it? > > Real mature - certainly gives Python a good name having followers like this... > > But then I guess I will cop flack for this rejoinder too...
Rick Johnson is a well-known troll. Opinion is divided as to the best way to handle the matter; one school follows the "Don't feed the trolls" motto and ignores him, the other trolls him right back. Rick has promised for a long time now that he's going to produce a Python 4000 (though I suspect Guido will produce Python 4.0 first, so it'll become Python 5000), but so far we haven't seen *any* code. His eternal complaints about Python are thus pure trolling and not well respected. I'm sorry the forum comes across sounding immature, but it's like a good game of Whack-A-Troll, or what Railbastard calls an "apparatusing". It's the community's way of maintaining itself. Expressing opinions won't get you flamed. Demanding that other people write a whole lot of code to suit your ridiculous notions of "warts" and doing none of the coding yourself, and keeping this up for years and years, WILL eventually get you flamed. And along the way, it gets you into a lot of people's killfiles. Oh, and Dennis? Mal. Bad. From the Latin. :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
