[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Okay, since everyone ignored the FAQ, I guess I can too... > > [snip] > > > What Python has is stupid slogans > > > ("It fits your brain." "Only one way to do things.") and an infinite > > > community of flies that, for some inexplicable reason, believe these > > > stupid slogns. > > > > IOW, you posted the FAQ so you could appear to have highest moral > > ground, then you ignore your own advice and promptly head to the very > > lowest ground with ad hominem insults. > > You're right, in part: My implicitly linking Python's pros or cons with > its stupid marketing hype is, I think, an ad hominem argument.
Ahem. Calling Python programmers "flies". > But I > don't see a moral issue here; the purpose of posting the FAQ was merely > to try to stop the fight. It failed. GMAB. If you were really interested in not fighting you would have shut up. > Regardless, there was some content in my post which you have not > addressed: > > To wit: > > 1. Lisp is the only industrial strength language with pure > compositionality, and that this makes it suprior to Python. We don't > have to debate this because it's being debated elsewhere in this > thread. > > 2. Ruby, which is closer to Lisp than Python, is beginning to eat > Python's lunch. We don't have to debate this either because George has > kindly gave support to it through posting a survey that made this point > quite nicely; Thanks, George! :-) > > BTW, for the record, I don't have anything particularly against Python > aside from its stupid marketing hype and a bit of jealousy over those > flies building libraries which I wish we had in Lisp. I've made the > choice uncountable times between PERL, Python, and Tcl when I didn't > have Lisp as an option, and I have always chosen Python in these cases, > even though I can program in any of these. (Although I'm probably going > to start using Ruby instead of Python in these cases, but I'm not > really expert in it yet.) > > (Actually, in many cases I can get away with Emacs keyboard macros > where others would program in PERL or Python, although not always.) Whatever, fanboy. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list