Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
n00m, 06.01.2010 01:25: My mom a little girl wsas pursued by Germans alsatians dogs in a forest Germans just made a fun of it. They screamead Zurich and laughed They laughed at her scare and you now teach me. Now her hands tremble froom malntrination She ate ate at WWII grass. And you teach me? Sorry, this thread wasn't long enough yet to put Godwin's law in action. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Stick your English into your ass -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! The more languages you learn before getting to Smalltalk, the more awesome Smalltalk will be for you. -- Phlip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Phlip wrote: On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! The more languages you learn before getting to Smalltalk, the more awesome Smalltalk will be for you. After implementing SmallTalk I more or less gave up OO programming for ten years, resuming it only after I met Python. SmallTalk didn't seem that awesome to me. Though for its time it was an incredible system, its insistence on a SmallTalk-only VM environment seemed a little solipsistic. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Jan 5, 8:22 am, n00m n...@narod.ru wrote: Stick your English into your ass Most people would say up your ass. And use a period at the end of the sentence. Got any more funny insults? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! The more languages you learn before getting to Smalltalk, the more awesome Smalltalk will be for you. After implementing SmallTalk I more or less gave up OO programming for ten years, But why? What was so frightening about the OO model of SmallTalk? Cheers, Daniel resuming it only after I met Python. SmallTalk didn't seem that awesome to me. Though for its time it was an incredible system, its insistence on a SmallTalk-only VM environment seemed a little solipsistic. -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Sorry I failed to salvage the thread. Go, quick, these threads are all around us! They are popping up everywhere! Go, go, quick! There is another troll thread right there! They are encircling us! They keep coming! At least one troll thread started on usenet just since I started typing! Quick, quick, do something! Do something! Save us! -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com writes: Go, quick, these threads are all around us! They are popping up everywhere! Go, go, quick! There is another troll thread right there! I wouldn't characterise this thread as a “troll thread”. If you think it is, that's fine I suppose. I'll continue to try improving the signal to noise ratio (modulo responses like this, sadly) by trying to emit more signal and less noise. -- \ “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands | `\ it.” —Albert Einstein | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Ben Finney wrote: Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com writes: Go, quick, these threads are all around us! They are popping up everywhere! Go, go, quick! There is another troll thread right there! I wouldn't characterise this thread as a “troll thread”. If you think it is, that's fine I suppose. I'll continue to try improving the signal to noise ratio (modulo responses like this, sadly) by trying to emit more signal and less noise. And I, for one, offer you my thanks for your efforts. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS:http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Go, quick, these threads are all around us! They are popping up everywhere! Go, go, quick! There is another troll thread right there! I wouldn't characterise this thread as a “troll thread”. If you think it is, that's fine I suppose. I'll continue to try improving the signal to noise ratio (modulo responses like this, sadly) by trying to emit more signal and less noise. And I, for one, offer you my thanks for your efforts. Me too. But Ben will not get the Best Sense of Humor Award of 2010 for sure :) Although who knows, there is a full year ahead and things can change Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com writes: But Ben will not get the Best Sense of Humor Award of 2010 for sure :) Sometimes the failing of humour is not with the recipient. -- \“Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?” “Sure, Brain, | `\ but how are we going to find chaps our size?” —_Pinky and The | _o__) Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Ben, go away from here. With all your stupids sigs. Do you think are you original? You are a stupid animal. Guido, Tim Peters, Raymond Hettinger are geniuis. I don't know exactly Python mob. Maybe forgot someone. You is only a source of depspise for them You get your everymonth fucking 1000 e sitting here whom are you teaching? This crowds of animals? They and you you cant nothing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Jan 4, 4:20 pm, n00m n...@narod.ru wrote: Ben, go away from here. With all your stupids sigs. Do you think are you original? You are a stupid animal. Guido, Tim Peters, Raymond Hettinger are geniuis. I don't know exactly Python mob. Maybe forgot someone. You is only a source of depspise for them You get your everymonth fucking 1000 e sitting here whom are you teaching? This crowds of animals? They and you you cant nothing Rants are so much funnier when the speaker can't speak English. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:06:24PM EST, Steve Howell wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! Interesting to note that Guido's achievements prompt much less response, and get much less coverage, than Xah Lee's :-) I guess Guido's not one to care much about beauty contests anyway. HNY, CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: Interesting to note that Guido's achievements prompt much less response, and get much less coverage […] The entirety of ‘comp.lang.python’ is an ongoing response to Guido van Rossum's achievements (and all the others that make Python great). Mere week- or month-long threads are paltry by comparison. -- \“If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to | `\ it.” —hotel room, Moscow | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:19:02PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: Interesting to note that Guido's achievements prompt much less response, and get much less coverage […] The entirety of ‘comp.lang.python’ is an ongoing response to Guido van Rossum's achievements (and all the others that make Python great). Mere week- or month-long threads are paltry by comparison. That I understand. But my remark was not really about Guido.. but rather in a roundabout way, more of a poke at Xah Lee, hopefully avoiding the troll-feeding trap. Sorry you missed my point. Come to think of it, since I have nothing much to say about python, but nevertheless enjoy reading most of the material on this list, this was mostly an excuse to wish everyone here a Happy New Year. CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
i'm sobered up Yes of course Guido and his lang is both superb things -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:19:02PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: The entirety of ‘comp.lang.python’ is an ongoing response to Guido van Rossum's achievements (and all the others that make Python great). Mere week- or month-long threads are paltry by comparison. That I understand. But my remark was not really about Guido.. but rather in a roundabout way, more of a poke at [a troll], hopefully avoiding the troll-feeding trap. You didn't avoid it, since you irrelevantly raised (twice, now) discussion of a troll in a thread originally unrelated to that person. Sorry you missed my point. I didn't, since I attempted to bring it back on topic by expunging the off-topic part of your message. Sorry I failed to salvage the thread. -- \ “If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly | `\ owned if it is not shared.” —Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
Now tell me: what ahat this mobs of yellow, africans, asiats, are doing in Stockholm? Do you think your govs let me in just to vist England, Norway? Never. Its all conditionally. But the fact is. IS. You roll our world into abyss of stupidity -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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n00m wrote: Ok, let me evolve a bit my thought. Guido is Eropean Culture. Now say what was invented by Japanese, by Chinese? Nothing. Barbaric cultures, they are animals inborn animals. Russian Sikorsky built choppers for Eisenhower. Look at letter S on them -- its his name What you know about his destiny? You know knothing. Yuou don't know that only the greatest Russian composer Rakhmaninov helped him, in America. Literally -- by money, the composer gave him all his fortune ~$1500 Be not this help -- no choppers in America Announcement: You can download the latest version of this cutting edge bot from here... http://www.illiteratexenophobicrantingracistsimulator.ru/usenet_spambot.py Plugins available here... http://www.illiteratexenophobicrantingracistsimulator.ru/terrible_spelling.py http://www.illiteratexenophobicrantingracistsimulator.ru/inconsequential_facts.py http://www.illiteratexenophobicrantingracistsimulator.ru/rabid_nationalism.py Happy new year everybody! Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:18:18PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: [..] Sorry you missed my point. I didn't, since I attempted to bring it back on topic by expunging the off-topic part of your message. Er.. what's 'off-topic' about mentioning that a couple of trolls on this list often seem to attract far more interest than a genuine testimonial to Guido's achievement? Sorry I failed to salvage the thread. Man with a Mission, hehe.. CJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. Go BSD derivatives. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 03:25 -0800, J Peyret wrote: On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. Go BSD derivatives. Indeed, python is a great programming language. May be it was not marketted as much as languages like java or not as much as platforms like rails. But who cares? I must mention here that I am totally blind and the talking software (screen reader ) I use on GNU/Linux called Orca is also programmed using python. And I make web applications and off late started to use pylons ( again centered around python). I see that python is for 2 kind of programmers. one which are absolute beginners to programming itself who want to learn the scientific art of programming and the second is the extreme experts who need the power and performance nicely balanced. Great work! happy hfacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
J Peyret wrote: On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. And anyone who says he isn't will be put into the comfy chair! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Jan 1, 9:03 am, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: J Peyret wrote: On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. And anyone who says he isn't will be put into the comfy chair! :-) And poked with the soft cushions! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: twenty years ago Guido created Python
On Jan 1, 6:04 am, Krishnakant hackin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 03:25 -0800, J Peyret wrote: On Dec 31 2009, 2:06 pm, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote: FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! Notwithstanding all of the above, which are all true, having met Guido, I say he is a genuinely nice human being. Go BSD derivatives. Indeed, python is a great programming language. May be it was not marketted as much as languages like java or not as much as platforms like rails. But who cares? I must mention here that I am totally blind and the talking software (screen reader ) I use on GNU/Linux called Orca is also programmed using python. And I make web applications and off late started to use pylons ( again centered around python). I see that python is for 2 kind of programmers. one which are absolute beginners to programming itself who want to learn the scientific art of programming and the second is the extreme experts who need the power and performance nicely balanced. Great work! happy hfacking. Krishnakant. That's incredible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
twenty years ago Guido created Python
FYI: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum Python is a truly awesome programming language. Not only is Guido a genius language designer, but he is also a great project leader. What an accomplishment. Congratulations to everybody who has contributed to Python in the last two decades! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
