Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-10 Thread Nigel Rantor
James Stroud wrote: Andreas Waldenburger wrote: Is it me, or has c.l.p. developed a slightly harsher tone recently? (Haven't been following for a while.) Yep. I can only post here for about a week or two until someone blows a cylinder and gets ugly because they interpreted something I said as

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-06 Thread alex23
On Dec 6, 2:22 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > I see your wink, but, please, did you read that thread started by "r" > about the Ruby API for some piece of Google software? That was so > offensively fanboyish that I almost removed Python from my computer. The on

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread James Stroud
alex23 wrote: On Dec 6, 8:00 am, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think its a symptom of the language's maturing, getting popular, and a minority fraction* of the language's most devout advocates developing an egotism that complements their python worship in a most unsavory way. It's

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:00:12 -0800, alex23 wrote: > On Dec 6, 8:00 am, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think its a symptom of the language's maturing, getting popular, and >> a minority fraction* of the language's most devout advocates developing >> an egotism that complements their p

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread alex23
On Dec 6, 8:00 am, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think its a symptom of the language's > maturing, getting popular, and a minority fraction* of the language's > most devout advocates developing an egotism that complements their > python worship in a most unsavory way. It's hard to se

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:00:18 -0800, James Stroud wrote: > Andreas Waldenburger wrote: >> Is it me, or has c.l.p. developed a slightly harsher tone recently? >> (Haven't been following for a while.) > > Yep. I can only post here for about a week or two until someone blows a > cylinder and gets ugl

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Dec 5, 4:00 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > > Is it me, or has c.l.p. developed a slightly harsher tone recently? > > (Haven't been following for a while.) > > Yep. I can only post here for about a week or two until someone blows a > cylinder and gets

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread James Stroud
Andreas Waldenburger wrote: Is it me, or has c.l.p. developed a slightly harsher tone recently? (Haven't been following for a while.) Yep. I can only post here for about a week or two until someone blows a cylinder and gets ugly because they interpreted something I said as a criticism of the

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Mabin
Warren, weren't you aware that Python.org is now a church. So you can never live up to the standards of the Pythonista high priests. You can only ask a question or submit your comment then cower, hoping the pythonista high priests don't beat you with clubs for heresy. ;) 2008/12/4 Warren DeLa

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-05 Thread Andreas Waldenburger
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:17:20 -0800 "Warren DeLano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank so much for the suggestions Ben. Sorry that I am personally > unable to live up to your high standards, but it is nevertheless an > honor to partipicate in such a helpful and mutually respectful > community maili

Re: To Troll or Not To Troll (aka: "as" keyword woes)

2008-12-04 Thread Warren DeLano
> From: Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Peculiarities in usenet resulted in this discussion having several > > threads and I missed some messages before I wrote this email. > > I'll put this more bluntly: Warren's messages to date > egregious