Luis M. González wrote: Luis, Thank you very much for you detailed and careful response. I very much appreciate your comments.
> Alok wrote: > > Luis M. González wrote: > > > Alok wrote: > > > > I was merely describing my experience and inviting others' response > > > > about theirs. > > > > > > That's exactly what I'm doing. > > > > You misinterpret, I was talking about my experience with the site and > > inviting response from other people about their experience with the > > site. Now, I don't know much about python or lisp, but I have read > > about this web-site's history with the two programming languages. And > > hence I chose to post in comp.lang.lisp and comp.lang.python. > > > > Now if there were a reddit.technology.lisp or > > reddit.technology.python, and if they had the same traction as these > > usenet groups, then I could have posted there. But that was not an > > option was it. > > > > > > > > > Please don't misconstrue that as a blame on any language. > > > > > > I think it can be interpreted in many ways. > > > > Can you please explain what your interpretation is? > > > > > Now if you're not ready to read other people's oppinions, don't ask. > > > > > > > Now, I think you are unfairly prejudiced about my not wanting to read > > other people's opinion. I would rather have a 1000 acrid responses to > > something I write and learn from it, than post into a responseless > > vacuum. > > > > > > And of course, I disagree with your comments about ridicule etc. > > > > > > Ok. > > Dear Alok, > > I think is you who are misinterpreting me (or I didn't make myself > clear). > You posted a link to a joke from reddit, which is perfectly fine, is > very funny. > But below, you added a comment wondering whether the change from Lisp > to Python may be a reason for a huge performance loss. I did not intend to comment on Python or Lisp but yes, I have aired my subjective observations about the site and in the context of the technologies used. And I hoped that other users may respond with comments if they have experienced any similar issues using the site. If I have implied an indication that the change from Lisp to Python was the reason that the site became 3 times slower, then I have slipped in unintended innuendos. And I must accept that I have to be more careful about it. > > I'm not a python bigot, but I just said that blamming a language choice > for such a deficieny was ridiculous. There are hundreds of very complex > web sites developed in python that doesn't suffer these problems, and, > even if they are developed in python, you must take into account which > other technologies they are using for deployment (web server, > framework, mod_python, cgi, fastcgi, hardware, etc, etc...). > Also, the fact that someone could be more versed or knowledgeable of > one language compared to another one, doesn't make it better or worse. > This is s subjective fact, and has nothing to do with the language. It > has to do with who's using the language. > > Also, as someone pointed out above, don't you think that the huge > incresement of traffic since they switched to python may have had > something to do with this problem? > Perhaps, their lack of experise in a new language didn't prepare them > for facing such a challenge. Who knows? Yeah, perhaps if they sticked > to Lisp, they could have handled the problem better. They are lispers, > aren't they? > > Anyway, you posted a comment, you asked for opinons, you got mine. > Sorry if I ofended you. It wasn't my intention. There is no offense taken or hurt feelings. But yes, detailed responses (and smileys) do make conversations more rewarding. > I'll make sure I place more smileys in my posts to avoid hurting > feelings from now on :-) > > Luis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
