On Jan 4, 3:17 pm, "ru...@yahoo.com" <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 01/04/2011 01:34 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > On 1/4/2011 1:24 PM, an Arrogant Ignoramus wrote: > > > what he called > >> a opinion piece. > > > I normally do not respond to trolls, but while expressing his opinions, > > AI made statements that are factually wrong at least as regards Python > > and its practitioners. > > Given that most trolls include factually false statements, > the above is inconsistent. And speaking of arrogant, it > is just that to go around screaming "troll" about a posting > relevant to the newsgroup it was posted in because you don't > happen to agree with its content. In doing so you lower > your own credibility. (Which is also not helped by your > "Arrogant Ignoramus" name-calling.)
yeah. i called them idiots, he calls me Artificial Intelligence ☺. fair game. > No. The language reference (LR) and standard library reference > (SLR) must stand on their own merits. It is nice to have a good > tutorial for those who like that style of learning. But it should > be possible for a programmer with a basic understanding of computers > and some other programming languages to understand how to program > in python without referring to tutorials, explanatory websites, > commercially published books, the source code, etc. yes exactly. the best python reference to me is Richard Gruet's quick ref: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR26/PQR2.6.html on the python doc, afaik people complains all the time, and i know at least 3 times in different years people have tried to bring up projects to fix it, all shot down with spit badly by python priests, of course. just 2 days ago, i was pissed due to python doc url disappearance too http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_url_disappearance.html Xah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list