Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-17 Thread Terry Hancock
print """\ On Monday 17 October 2005 02:59 am, Xah Lee wrote: > > Bryan wrote: > > mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm sure > > you > > would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet you in > > person... > > > > thanks. > > I'd be delight to. >

Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-17 Thread Xah Lee
Bryan wrote: > mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm sure you > would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet you in > person... > > thanks. I'd be delight to. My requirements are: 1 cup of fat-free milk, free, and free pizza. Xah [EMAIL PROTE

Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-11 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Bryan wrote: > mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm > sure you would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet > you in person... > > thanks. > I think that would be a highly un-pythonesque crowd. Python isn't much in the sense of limitations, b

Re: bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-11 Thread Bryan
mr. xah... would you be willing to give a lecture at pycon 2006? i'm sure you would draw a huge crowd and a lot of people would like to meet you in person... thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

bizarro world (was Re: Python Doc Problem Example: sort() (reprise))

2005-10-11 Thread Bryan
Xah Lee wrote: > Addendum, 200510 > > Here's further example of Python's extreme low quality of > documentation. In particular, what follows focuses on the bad writing > skill aspect, and comments on some language design and quality issues > of Python. > >>From the Official Python documentation o