Re: is laziness a programer's virtue?

2007-04-17 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Markus E Leypold >>> Trying to correct Xah's behaviour is probably impossible. > > Ingo Menger wrote: >> Perhaps somebody could ask the chinese government to put him in jail >> for "hurting international society" :) > > Y'know, e

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-07 Thread Bruce C. Baker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] (for example, Perl's naming heavily relies on unix culture (grep, pipe, hash...), ... "hash" + "pipe"? Ah, /no wonder/ Perl is the syntactic mishmash it is! ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Your beloved python features

2010-02-05 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"George Sakkis" wrote in message news:de06116c-e77c-47c4-982d-62b48bca5...@j31g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than trolling. George * Not trolling, my friend! GvR got it

Re: Your beloved python features

2010-02-06 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"Terry Reedy" wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Iterators, and in particular, generators. > A killer feature. > > Terry Jan Reedy > Neither unique to Python. And then're the other killer "features" superfluous ":"s and rigid formatting! -- http

Re: language analysis to enforce code standards

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"Jason S. Friedman" wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Hello, I administer the Informatica ETL tool at my company. Part of that > role involves creating and enforcing standards. I want the Informatica > developers to add comments to certain key obj

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
wrote in message news:defacf35-6149-485a-8f03-15472d63d...@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com... Oh, puh-LEEZ, Martin! A two-year-old wouldn't be fooled by this! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"Floetry" wrote in message news:[email protected]... On Jul 9, 8:33 pm, "Bruce C. Baker" wrote: > wrote in message > > news:defacf35-6149-485a-8f03-15472d63d...@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com... > > > > Oh,

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-10 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"Musatov" wrote in message news:[email protected]... [snip-a-rooney] > violator." Google could not be reached for comment. Possibly because they were laughing so hard they couldn't hear their cell phones ringing ...? -- http://mail.python.org

Re: What python can NOT do?

2009-08-28 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"qwe rty" wrote in message news:[email protected]... >i know that an interpreted language like python can't be used to make > an operating system or system drivers. > > what else can NOT be done in python? what are the limitations of the > language?

Re: Why does this group have so much spam?

2009-08-29 Thread Bruce C. Baker
"casebash" wrote in message news:[email protected]... > So much of it could be removed even by simple keyword filtering. Assuming this is a serious question: 1. comp.lang.python has relatively little spam, compared to others. 2. The spam posters