Re: Defending Python

2005-07-13 Thread Andrew Durdin
On 7/13/05, Jorey Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The larch! IT'S A TREE ... not a shrubbery? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-13 Thread Brett g Porter
Jorey Bump wrote: Monty Python's Flying Circus used to begin with It's... I had read at one time that It's was one of the original names proposed for the troupe/show, although I can't seem to find verification. In fact, one of the titles of the show was 'It's', so he must have been in

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-12 Thread Jorey Bump
Jorey Bump wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's. +1 for this becoming the official name of Python 3000. ;) Monty Python's Flying Circus used to begin with It's... I had read at one time that It's was one of the original names proposed for the troupe/show,

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-11 Thread Lucas Raab
Peter Hansen wrote: Jorey Bump wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's. +1 for this becoming the official name of Python 3000. ;) And now for something completely different... The larch! Sorry, already taken: '''Larch - John Guttag and Jim Horning [EMAIL

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-10 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Jorey Bump a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Grant Edwards a écrit : On 2005-07-09, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks as an easily acquired extra skill. I agree 100% with your statement above. Python may not be sufficient for being

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-10 Thread Jorey Bump
Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jorey Bump a écrit : Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Grant Edwards a écrit : On 2005-07-09, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks as an easily acquired extra skill. I agree 100%

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-10 Thread Peter Hansen
Jorey Bump wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's. +1 for this becoming the official name of Python 3000. ;) And now for something completely different... The larch! Sorry, already taken: '''Larch - John Guttag and Jim Horning [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The Larch Project

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-09 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Dave Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | On 2005-07-08, Charlie Calvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I perhaps rather foolishly wrote two article that mentioned Python as a | good alternative language to more popular tools such as C# or Java. I | | Sounds like a really hidebound bunch over there.

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-09 Thread Brian
Raymond Hettinger wrote: So, I would recommend Python to these folks as an easily acquired extra skill. I agree 100% with your statement above. Python may not be sufficient for being the only programming language that one needs to know -- yet, it does come in VERY handy for projects that

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-07-09, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks as an easily acquired extra skill. I agree 100% with your statement above. Python may not be sufficient for being the only programming language that one needs to know -- yet, it does come in VERY handy for projects that need to perform

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Grant Edwards a écrit : On 2005-07-09, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks as an easily acquired extra skill. I agree 100% with your statement above. Python may not be sufficient for being the only programming language that one needs to know -- yet, it does come in VERY handy for

Re: Defending Python

2005-07-09 Thread Jorey Bump
Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Grant Edwards a écrit : On 2005-07-09, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks as an easily acquired extra skill. I agree 100% with your statement above. Python may not be sufficient for being the only programming

Defending Python

2005-07-08 Thread Charlie Calvert
I perhaps rather foolishly wrote two article that mentioned Python as a good alternative language to more popular tools such as C# or Java. I encountered more resistance than I had expected. If someone who really knows a lot about Python would like to go over to the CodeFez website and defend