On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/10 11:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com >> <mailto:robert.k...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger >> <use...@geekmail.invalid> >> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro >> <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >> >> > In message < >> mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org >> <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org> >> <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org >> <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-l...@python.org>>>, >> >> > Emile van Sebille wrote: >> > >> > > Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's >> attribute? >> > >> > I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women... >> >> You may want to think about whether this really was your >> intended >> meaning. >> >> >> Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy; >> explains why >> programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least). >> Made >> perfect >> sense to me. >> >> >> That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than >> women". >> >> >> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax? >> > > Correction: <sarcasm> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax? </sarcasm> > It's *all* we argue about. That, and tabs vs. spaces. > But tabs ARE spaces (specifically 3 of them), in a row ;) > > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless > enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it > had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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