Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-10-10 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:36:47 -0600, rumours say that Mahesh Padmanabhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip lot of drivel While I don't like to feed the trolls, I do find his posts amusing. He is like a spoilt child seeking

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-10-10 Thread gene tani
request for Google groups enhancement: Report Abuse button should have 4 choices: - Spam - Illegal Content - Xah - other ;-} Christos Georgiou wrote: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:36:47 -0600, rumours say that Mahesh Padmanabhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-10-05 Thread Mahesh Padmanabhan
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip lot of drivel While I don't like to feed the trolls, I do find his posts amusing. He is like a spoilt child seeking attention. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Other Implementations [was: Re: Perl's documentation come of age]

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Holden
Mike wrote: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like I'm having a bad week w/these URLs, because now I'm not able to access http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com . I was hoping to get at the archives to see if I can glean more info

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-27 Thread Mike
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike wrote: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Hugunin's keynote speech at this year's PyCon was accompanied by a projection if his interactive interpreter session, and I know I

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-27 Thread Mike
Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like I'm having a bad week w/these URLs, because now I'm not able to access http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com . I was hoping to get at the archives to see if I can glean more info before I

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-23 Thread Steve Holden
Mike wrote: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Hugunin's keynote speech at this year's PyCon was accompanied by a projection if his interactive interpreter session, and I know I wasn't alone in finding this a convincing example of Microsoft's (well,

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-22 Thread Mabden
Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This guy deserves two ascii trolls: ___ /| /| | | ||__|| | Please do |

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-22 Thread Mike
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Hugunin's keynote speech at this year's PyCon was accompanied by a projection if his interactive interpreter session, and I know I wasn't alone in finding this a convincing example of Microsoft's (well, Jim's,

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-22 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mike wrote: Jim Hugunin's keynote speech at this year's PyCon was accompanied by a projection if his interactive interpreter session, and I know I wasn't alone in finding this a convincing example of Microsoft's (well, Jim's, really) full integration of Python into the .net framework.

Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Xah Lee
Perl's documentation has come of age: http://perldoc.perl.org/ Python morons really need to learn: • ample example codes. • example codes are linked to the appropriate doc location for each code word in the example. • written in a task-oriented style, or manifest-functionality style

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Rudy Schockaert
snip• Do think clearly before writing. /snipYou should start thinking before you write something. Do you really think anyone takes you serious the way you talk?I haven't seen anything constructive yet from your side. You always have to comment, why don't you start writing documentation yourself

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Holden
Rudy Schockaert wrote: snip • Do think clearly before writing. /snip You should start thinking before you write something. Do you really think anyone takes you serious the way you talk? I haven't seen anything constructive yet from your side. You always have to comment, why

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Ed Hotchkiss
please feed the trolls. On 9/21/05, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudy Schockaert wrote: snip • Do think clearly before writing. /snip You should start thinking before you write something. Do you really think anyone takes you serious the way you talk? I haven't seen anything constructive

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 05:41, Xah Lee wrote: One easy way to test this, is for Pythoners to read Perl docs and vice versa. Pythoners will find that, you really don't know what the fuck the Perlers are talking about. Same with Perler with Python docs. At the risk of feeding the troll

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Ed Hotchkiss
I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding the interpreter. what is that? who uses that!? Why are most examples like that, rather than executed as .py files? Another problem that I have (which does get annoying after awhile), is not using foo and bar. Spam and Eggs

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Benji York
Ed Hotchkiss wrote: I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding the interpreter. I couldn't (with a quick skimming) find any references to the interpreter in the thread, so I'll guess the original assertion was something like showing new-comers the interpreter is

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Kern
Ed Hotchkiss wrote: I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding the interpreter. what is that? who uses that!? I spend most of my work day at the interpreter. I don't write programs; I write libraries which I control with the interpreter. It's a fantastically useful and

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Jeremy Jones
Ed Hotchkiss wrote: I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding the interpreter. what is that? who uses that!? Why are most examples like that, rather than executed as .py files? I think showing examples at the Python interpreter prompt is *very* helpful and IMHO a

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Holden
Jeremy Jones wrote: Ed Hotchkiss wrote: I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding the interpreter. what is that? who uses that!? Why are most examples like that, rather than executed as .py files? I think showing examples at the Python interpreter prompt is

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Keith Thompson
Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ the usual ] +---+ .:\:\:/:/:. | PLEASE DO NOT |:.:\:\:/:/:.: | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: | | '=(\ 9 9 /)=' | Thank you,

Re: Perl's documentation come of age

2005-09-21 Thread Måns Rullgård
This guy deserves two ascii trolls: ___ /| /| | | ||__|| | Please do | / O O\__ NOT | / \