[Python-ideas] Bloody FAQ (Was: [Python-Dev] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None))

[Ned Batchelder]

On 7/5/2012 3:41 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> Make the bloody FAQ and summarize this stuff? Why waste each others
> time? If people don't enjoy repeating themselves over and over - there
> is a bloody wiki. What should happen to people to start extracting
> gems of knowledge from piles of dusty sheets called list "archives"
> for others to admire.
>
> No, it is easier to say "it was already discussed many times", "why
> don't you Google yourself", "so far you're only complaining", etc. If
> people can't find anything - why everybody thinks they are ignorant
> and lazy. Even if it so, why nobody thinks that maybe that bloody
> Xapian index is dead again for a bloody amount of moons nobody knows
> why and how many exactly? Why nobody thinks that lazy coders can also
> help with development? Maybe that laziness is the primary reason some
> major groups actually prefer Python to Java, C++ and other more
> interesting languages (such as PHP) when it comes to typing? Make it
> easy and the patches will follow. Answers like "this was discussed
> before" don't make it easy to understand, and leaving users rereading
> old 19xx archives that people don't reread themselves will likely make
> users bounce and never (NEVER!) come up with some proposal again. An
> "organic" way to keep traffic low.
>
> Miscommunication is a bad experience for users, bad experience for
> developers, everybody is annoyed and as a result such nice language as
> Python loses points on TIOBE (and convenient chunk() functions to
> munch-munch on the sequence data).
Anatoly, miscommunication is a bad experience, yes.  This is an 
excellent example of it.  I honestly have no idea what you are 
advocating in this message, partly because sarcasm doesn't work well.  
You seem really upset, but I for one don't know what it is you want.

--Ned.

> Wheew. :-F
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