<div dir="ltr">I would be lying if i I wasn't personally turned off a bit by Stepehen Turnbull's post, and I think most of us were, so let's not beat around the bush saying "but <b>technically</b>... we didn't mentioned his <b>name</b>..." the context was clear enough. It was more-or-less in reference to what he said even if we didn't say so explicitly. <div>
<br></div><div>I think it is clear to all of us that it was his post that sparked off my #soapboxing, and we can talk about the reasons why it can be interpreted as chasing people away (I don't think that's up for debate), whether he meant it that way or not. It's probably to do with the "python doesn't need you, go use another language" motif, but I won't do any further literary analysis on the sentences.<div>
<br></div><div>But he's apologized, so any personal offense that was taken has now been discarded =)</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Terry Jan Reedy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu" target="_blank">tjreedy@udel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Stephen, the post by Haoyi that I responded to neither mentioned you nor quoted you. Nothing I wrote in response to that post was specifically aimed at you. 'Some people' meant some people, here, on python-list, occasionaly pydev, blogs, stackoverflow, ... . Steven D'Aprano, who also frequents python-list, has seen many of the same posts that stimulated my comment, and obviously had a similar reaction.<br>
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If you are labelling my post spam, I disagree. but lets drop it.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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