Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-30 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
metaperl wrote: > I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b > > I have been very pleased with Python developers regardless of skill > levels in both the IRC channel as well as here - no ho

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-30 Thread Pierre Quentel
I am also shocked by Fredrick Lundh's impoliteness and think he makes this group less friendly than I expected when I read this on http://www.python.org/community/lists/: "Rudeness and personal attacks, even in reaction to blatant flamebait, are strongly frowned upon. People may strongly disagree

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-29 Thread Istvan Albert
metaperl wrote: > I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b Ahhh, no need to overreact, that's just the usual Friday night steel cage match: Fredrik vs "Poster Who is Convinced That The

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-29 Thread Magnus Lycka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve makes a good point. Fredrik is one of the most important > contributors of Python code, tools, etc and as far as I am concerned, > that is so important that it gives him the right to be cranky from tiem > to time. Since February last year I've had the opportunity t

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread John Salerno
Steven Bethard wrote: > [1] He's the author of Python's unicode support and Python 2.5's > elementtree module. Is that all? ;) He also implemented the partition string method, which for some reason I think is the coolest thing since sliced lists. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread Timothy Grant
On 25 Sep 2006 07:35:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Metaperl, > > Steve makes a good point. Fredrik is one of the most important > contributors of Python code, tools, etc and as far as I am concerned, > that is so important that it gives him the right to be cranky from tie

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread rdsteph
Metaperl, Steve makes a good point. Fredrik is one of the most important contributors of Python code, tools, etc and as far as I am concerned, that is so important that it gives him the right to be cranky from tiem to time. If somebody like me were to get cranky and negative, on the other hand, t

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread John Machin
Steven Bethard wrote: > metaperl wrote: > > I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b > > I see that this is a Fredrik Lundh thread. I've felt the same way > before, but Fredrik has be

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread Steve Holden
Steven Bethard wrote: > metaperl wrote: > >>I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: >>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b > > > I see that this is a Fredrik Lundh thread. I've felt the same way > before, but Fredrik has

Re: Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread Steven Bethard
metaperl wrote: > I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b I see that this is a Fredrik Lundh thread. I've felt the same way before, but Fredrik has been around a long time[1] and if y

Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

2006-09-25 Thread metaperl
I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b I have been very pleased with Python developers regardless of skill levels in both the IRC channel as well as here - no hot attitudes. No holier th