On Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:18:25 PM UTC+5:30, Zero Piraeus wrote: > : > > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:20:39AM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Oh well. There's only so much I can do at once. I've got bigger > > troubles than trying to solve Ruby's problems with yahoos, and > > frankly, if I were a Ruby community member, I wouldn't exactly be > > pleased to have a bunch of strangers from another community come over > > to tell me all the things I'm doing wrong. > > What could possibly go wrong? > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/18/uselections2004.usa2
Fun read that -- thanks. And it leads to the following analogizing: Python advising Ruby (forgive the anthropomorphism) is less like Brits advising the Americans than the Iraquis. Yeah there is no bloodshed (God forbid!) between python and ruby but there is a sense of competition. A more orthogonal group advising may.. well be more advisable :-) eg debian packager group or w3 consortium or X-windows consortium or some such As for the subject matter itself Ive uhh.. nothing to say: Considering that 'retarded' implies sexism my cultural antenna is currently broken... I'll squeak a word or two when its repaired... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list