Steve Holden wrote:
'Scuse me? This group has a long history of off-topic posting, and anyway who decided that CPython should be the exclusive focus? Even on-topic we can talk about Jython and PyPy as well as CPython.
I agree with your point, although Hans Nowak and others may not. Anything related to python or from the perspective of a current or potential python user is on-topic for this list. We can talk about logo, jython, java or other topics whenever and whereever we want. If you can't accept free speech and different perspectives, you're going to be disappointed. But please do not react by trying to intimidate and troll others here.
Now you're trying to make it seem like I am against free speech on this list, and against people's rights to discuss whatever they want. I never said that, and I in fact enjoy the fact that c.l.py posters are an eclectic bunch who have knowledge of, and like to talk about, a great number of topics.
Boo is not related to Python. Aside from a superficial resemblence, it's not like Python at all. In spite of that, you would have been welcome to post about it (and still are), if it wasn't for your earlier behavior... claiming to a newbie that Boo is "virtually identical to Python" (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/0c266cf441a46081), then calling people who question that claim "trolls", and pretending that you said "Boo's syntax is virtually identical" all along. That is what got you into hot water with a few posters here (and more and more as you keep calling people names and putting words in their mouths). This is also what inspired my "this is comp.lang.python, not comp.lang.boo" remark. People didn't take offense at the fact that you discussed Boo here, but at how you did it.
Funny; *you* are the one who keeps spreading misinformation, first of a technical nature, then about people. Yet you have the nerve to call other people trolls?
-- Hans Nowak http://zephyrfalcon.org/
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