Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-08 Thread Jason C. McDonald
He also uses sockpuppets as a hobby, clearly. That project has been "under construction" in its early phases for quite a long time. It's certainly not at the state where "he" can brag about it like he does. And being part of a team that built a smartphone is not the same as inventing smartphones.

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-08 Thread Jason C. McDonald
Haha, I've encountered this guy several times around USENET and IRC. Among his other claims, he's building a compiler that compiles every language, and he invented smartphones. That's what we call "all hat and no cattle". ;) I mostly haven't plonked him for the entertainment value. On 2021-05-06,

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread MRAB
On 2021-05-06 21:35, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 06 May 2021 13:54:23 Skip Montanaro wrote: > Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a > hexpad. Pshaa... All you need are front panel switches. ;-) (Yes, I had a professor who required is to 'key' in our programs on

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
@Gene Heskett That ran deep. I was going to ask you were doing in PythonLand but you answered it at the end. Maybe i should ask what made you interested in Python in the first place? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-05-06, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 5/5/21 8:58 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Mr Flibble writes: >> >>> Python is slow and significant whitespace is patently absurd. >> >> Why am I not surprised to learn your "fast" implementation turns out to >> be something other than python? > > And it's

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 06 May 2021 13:54:23 Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a > > hexpad. > > Pshaa... All you need are front panel switches. ;-) (Yes, I had a > professor who required is to 'key' in our programs on the front panel, > of a rack mounte

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Michael F. Stemper
On 06/05/2021 11.53, Wayne Lodahl wrote: On 5/6/21 6:11 AM, Mr Flibble wrote: Python is slow and significant whitespace is patently absurd. Bloody rubbish, it's all bloody rubbish. Message ends. /Flibble Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a hexpad. That's what

RE: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Avi Gross via Python-list
Message- From: Python-list On Behalf Of Joe Pfeiffer Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 3:03 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Bloody rubbish Skip Montanaro writes: >> >> Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a hexpad. >> > > Pshaa... All

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Skip Montanaro writes: >> >> Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a hexpad. >> > > Pshaa... All you need are front panel switches. ;-) (Yes, I had a professor > who required is to 'key' in our programs on the front panel, of a rack > mounted PDP-11 as I recall. Needless

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 06.05.21 um 19:54 schrieb Skip Montanaro: Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a hexpad. Pshaa... All you need are front panel switches. ;-) (Yes, I had a professor who required is to 'key' in our programs on the front panel, of a rack mounted PDP-11 as I recall.

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
> > Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a hexpad. > Pshaa... All you need are front panel switches. ;-) (Yes, I had a professor who required is to 'key' in our programs on the front panel, of a rack mounted PDP-11 as I recall. Needless to say, we didn't use an assembler

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Michael Torrie
On 5/5/21 8:58 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Mr Flibble writes: > >> Python is slow and significant whitespace is patently absurd. > > Why am I not surprised to learn your "fast" implementation turns out to > be something other than python? And it's bizarre that the OP, since he despises Python so

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Wayne Lodahl
On 5/6/21 6:11 AM, Mr Flibble wrote: > Python is slow and significant whitespace is patently absurd. > > Bloody rubbish, it's all bloody rubbish. > > Message ends. > > /Flibble > Machine language is so much simpler, and you can code with just a hexpad. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Orvar
On 06/05/2021 14.11, Mr Flibble wrote: Python is slow Maybe it's for your OS is slow by nature -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-05 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Mr Flibble writes: > Python is slow and significant whitespace is patently absurd. Why am I not surprised to learn your "fast" implementation turns out to be something other than python? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list