On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:38:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your >>>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you. >>> >>> A utopia very few will ever find. >> >> In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open source >> projects. I could go into my theories as to why, but it'd make for a >> long post. > > http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-politics/
Yeah, that goes into several of the reasons I would have been saying. It also has some great quotes. """ C++ exists because someone had a fever dream in which these two classes of vehicles got mixed up and thought, “I’m going to put wings on a [bleep] tank”. """ ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list