<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ben Finney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben%2Bpython@benfinney.id.au">ben+python@benfinney.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD<br>
> > BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN",<br>
> > THAT "WHO DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR<br>
> > SOMETHING SIMILAR, JUST DON'T.<br>
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> Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request.<br>
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</div>The request was completely unreasonable. Cedric does not get to<br>
unilaterally set restrictions on who and how people respond to a screed<br>
in a public forum.<br><div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>Oh, of course. I was just playing along. But my real point was to berate the community for responding at all to such an obvious trolling post.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> the rest I have to say about the topic would violate the above<br>
> request.<br>
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</div>You have my permission to violate the above request. That should have at<br>
least as much authority as the request itself, so you are hereby<br>
empowered to respond as you like.<span class="HOEnZb"></span><br></blockquote></div><br>It would be utterly redundant. He said it all in his all-caps message.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido">python.org/~guido</a>)<br>