Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-10-01 Thread Ray
MonkeeSage wrote: > Ant wrote: > > Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to > > be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl > > 6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys. > > Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other > "h

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-10-01 Thread MonkeeSage
Ant wrote: > Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to > be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl > 6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys. Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other "hyper" operators already in pugs:

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-10-01 Thread MonkeeSage
Ant wrote: > Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to > be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl > 6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys. Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other "hyper" operators already in pugs:

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-10-01 Thread Ant
Mirco Wahab wrote: > Thus spoke A.M. Kuchling (on 2006-09-30 19:26): > > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:10:14 +0100, > > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats it. What is the fuzz all about? I consider 'hyper fatarrow' > (you did't the »=>« get right) just a joke of LW > (he does so sometimes ;

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-10-01 Thread Mirco Wahab
Thus spoke A.M. Kuchling (on 2006-09-30 19:26): > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:10:14 +0100, > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My God, Perl 6 is going to be even less comprehensible that Perl 5, >> which was at least usable. Is »=>« really a Perl6 operator? That's too >> funny! > > While we

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-09-30 Thread Robert Hicks
Steve Holden wrote: > Istvan Albert wrote: > [...] > > ps. as for the title of this post, it is ironic that you are insulting > > another community while asking for no insults > > > Perhaps so, but none the less comp.lang.perl has a demonstrable history > of newbie-flaming. Don't know what it's li

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-09-30 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:10:14 +0100, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My God, Perl 6 is going to be even less comprehensible that Perl 5, > which was at least usable. Is »=>« really a Perl6 operator? That's too > funny! While we poor Python people have to cope with writing:

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-09-30 Thread Steve Holden
MonkeeSage wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>Perhaps so, but none the less comp.lang.perl has a demonstrable history >>of newbie-flaming. Don't know what it's like now, as it's years since I >>read that group, but they used to just love the smell of crisply-toasted >>newbie in the morning ;-) > >

Re: The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-09-30 Thread MonkeeSage
Steve Holden wrote: > Perhaps so, but none the less comp.lang.perl has a demonstrable history > of newbie-flaming. Don't know what it's like now, as it's years since I > read that group, but they used to just love the smell of crisply-toasted > newbie in the morning ;-) C'mon! No reason why a newb

The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Holden
Istvan Albert wrote: [...] > ps. as for the title of this post, it is ironic that you are insulting > another community while asking for no insults > Perhaps so, but none the less comp.lang.perl has a demonstrable history of newbie-flaming. Don't know what it's like now, as it's years since I re