[Python-Dev] Re: Python-dev summary for 2002-08-15 - 2002-09-01

[Steve Holden]

[Fran=E7ois Pinard]
> [Fredrik Lundh]
>
> > [...] and this mailing list is about python.
>
> Why did you reply to the mailing list, then? :-)
>
The effbot is a law unto itself :-)

> > Fran=E7ois Pinard wrote:
> >> [Steve Holden]
>
> >> > It looks especially bad in my standard mailreader variable-pitch
font.
>
[...]
>
> Python did not build its success by trying to convince people that ever=
y
else
> is wrong.  It rather offered an environment in which participants happi=
ly
> considered they were gaining a lot.
>
erm, ...

> If someone breaks its screen appearance through selection of inappropri=
ate
> fonts, he might gain some pleasure indeed while loosing the ability to
read
> many existing messages.  That's really his choice and preferences, he h=
as
to
> live with the drawbacks, without trying to convince senders that they a=
re
all
> wrong.  Considering others as losers does not efficiently trigger
progress.
>
I don't really consider """It looks especially bad in my standard mailrea=
der
variable-pitch font""" to be sufficiently evangelical to deserve this
rebuke, but then I didn't really consider your rebuke deserved either, so=
 I
guess we should just terminate this thread now.

regards
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