On Wednesday 05 November 2014 10:56:57 Larry Martell did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Ivan Evstegneev > > > > <webmailgro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> That's what I'm talking about (asking actually), where do you know > >>>> it from? > >>>> > >>>>I know it because I've been a programmer for 39 years. > >> > >> I didn't intend to offence anyone here. Just asked a questions ^_^ > > > > Don't worry about offending people. > > Exactly. This is the internet - it's all about annoying people ;-) > > > Even if you do annoy one or two, > > there'll be plenty of us who know to be patient :) And I don't think > > Larry was actually offended; it's just that some questions don't > > really have easy answers - imagine someone asking a great > > mathematician "But how do you KNOW that 2 + 2 is 4? Where's it > > written down?"... all he can say is "It is". > > Yeah, I'm on a lot of lists and lately I've seen a lot of 'I'm not a > programmer, but I want to write code and I need someone to tell me > how." Gets to you after a while.
+1000, and its not just this list Larry. It seems we have a pandemic. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list