Paddy wrote: > I just Googled and found the Python-Dev thread 'About "Coverity Study > Ranks LAMP Code Quality" '. I was heartened by the type of issues > raised in the discussion - it leaves me content with whats > 'under-the-hood' in Python. > > You maintainers don't seem to bang your own drum, which is a good > thing, but since I'm not a maintainer, I'd just like to roll out the > drums (http://www.yakudo.com/) and shout > > THANKS GUYS - IT'S APPRECIATED! > > (boy am I gonna get it for this post :-) > i presume you must have been trying to imply that your significant other would cause problems if they discovered you had been spending time on comp.lang.python.
You can see by the enormous number of posts following your up and complaining about your shouted thanks that nobody else is as grateful to the developers as you are. [For those who read this out of context: not one single complaint was raised about Paddy's shouted thanks in the week following his post. This message should be read with irony sensors fully activated]. The thing about developers is, you tell them how wonderful they are, and how much you appreciate what they do, pay them large salaries and give them pleasant offices, then the next thing you know you have Java to program in and they are telling you that you have to change your style and do things their way. Much better to keep them in a dark cellar and throw them the occasional crust of stale bread. That way they are pathetically grateful to meet someone who'll even consider using their code. Keeps the power semantics right - see http://www.wussu.com/humour/semantic.htm regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
