On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/11/10 11:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Kern <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro >> <[email protected]_zealand> wrote: >> >> > In message < >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>>, >> >> > 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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