Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-17 Thread Terry Hancock
print """\ On Monday 17 October 2005 02:59 am, Xah Lee wrote: > > Bryan wrote: > > mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm sure > > you > > would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet you in > > person... > > > > thanks. > > I'd be delight to. >

Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-17 Thread Xah Lee
Bryan wrote: > mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm sure you > would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet you in > person... > > thanks. I'd be delight to. My requirements are: 1 cup of fat-free milk, free, and free pizza. Xah [EMAIL PROTE

Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-11 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Bryan wrote: > mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm > sure you would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet > you in person... > > thanks. > I think that would be a highly un-pythonesque crowd. Python isn't much in the sense of limitations, b

Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-11 Thread Bryan
mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm sure you would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet you in person... thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-11 Thread Bryan
Xah Lee wrote: > Addendum, 200510 > > Here's further example of Python's extreme low quality of > documentation. In particular, what follows focuses on the bad writing > skill aspect, and comments on some language design and quality issues > of Python. > >>From the Official Python documentation o

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise)

2005-10-11 Thread Xah Lee
Addendum, 200510 Here's further example of Python's extreme low quality of documentation. In particular, what follows focuses on the bad writing skill aspect, and comments on some language design and quality issues of Python. >From the Official Python documentation of the sort() method, at: http: